Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 13:05:21 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: Doug Gardner <Doug.Gardner@jhuapl.edu> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: help installing freeBSD Message-ID: <354E1F81.CCEE448E@san.rr.com> References: <354E1050.D47C78E9@jhuapl.edu>
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I'm sending your letter to freebsd-questions where you are more likely to get help. Doug Doug Gardner wrote: > > I'm trying to install freeBSD on my new 400 Mhz pII DELL computer. The > install hangs with a solid cursor in the bottom left of the screen. > This happens after the probes complete. I'm not able to see the last > line of the probe since the screen is blanked. I encounter the same > problem when booting from the CDROM directly. > > I don't have this problem with my 486 machine or my DELL machine at > work. > Is there any way to halt the installation process to see what's > happening at the end of the probe step? It seems obvious that its a > hardware compatibility problem but without being able to see where the > problem happens, I'm unable to resolve it. > > Thanks in advance, > Doug Gardner > douglas_gardner@jhuapl.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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