Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:01:24 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz> To: Fritz Heinrichmeyer <fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no boot on new motherboard (celeron+via+viper-tnt2) Message-ID: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9910120858480.25011-100000@kiwi.logisticsoftware.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <ufzoxql48y.fsf@jfh00.fernuni-hagen.de>
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On 11 Oct 1999, Fritz Heinrichmeyer wrote:
>
> on saturday my son and i got an celeron, a motherboard with via-chipset
> and an AGP card from diamond with a riva-tnt2 chip. Booting freebsd
> current from floppy disc failed with a kernel panic and booting linux
> from cdrom failed silently (it simply stopped).
>
Since both the free Unixes failed, I'd guess that it be due to one
of two things:
1. bad memory
2. BIOS settings (usually memory related).
Jonathan Chen
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