From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Apr 15 04:52:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA06644 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 04:52:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-30.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA06617 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 11:51:51 GMT (envelope-from sie@systemfile.demon.co.uk) Received: from (sie) [194.222.128.5] by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0yPQjG-00026M-00; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 12:51:50 +0100 Message-ID: <000101bd6864$adbffa20$0580dec2@sie> From: "Sie Raybould" To: Subject: Wont even boot from the floppy on my laptop Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 12:49:45 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I ran FreeBSD for a while on my old TI4000M without problems a while back and now have need for UNIX on my new laptop. I have tried the 2.2.2-RELEASE boot floppy and it gets as far as: -- Booting the kernel BIOS basemem (639K) != RTC basemem (640K), setting to BIOS value Copyright (c) 1992-1997 FreeBSD Inc Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Tue May 20 11:16:09 GMT 1997 jkh@cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BOOTMFS -- Then the system hangs and cannot be reset, except by switching the power off. I also tried booting with -c, no different. Then I tried downloading 2.2.6-RELEASE boot floppy and it was also no different. The machine is an AJP badged laptop actually made by the Kapoc Computer Company in Taiwan. These machines are sold in hundreds of countries under differnent names. Here in the UK, I have seen them badged as AJP and MBC. In Switzerland, I have seen them as "Microspot". The spec is: 233MMX Intel Pentium 64Mb RAM Chips and Technologies 65555 graphics with 4Mb 15.1" XGA (1024x768) TFT LCD panel ESS1879 3D sound system Standard 1.44 3.5" floppy 20x TEAC CDROM 1 Parallel port 1 Serial port 2 USB ports Fast IR 2 PCMCIA slots (I have 3C589 ethernet and Adaptec 1640 SlimSCSI in them) Is there any way I can switch tracing on or something to see how far things are getting, or to see what is casing the boot to hang ? Thanks in advance, Sie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message