From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 6 12:56:26 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA19927 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 12:56:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from dub-img-5.compuserve.com (dub-img-5.compuserve.com [198.4.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA19922 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 12:56:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by dub-img-5.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id PAA06118; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 15:55:53 -0500 Date: 06 Dec 95 15:52:34 EST From: Dave Franco <100075.2767@compuserve.com> To: FreeBSD Subject: Please Assist Message-ID: <951206205233_100075.2767_EHK99-4@CompuServe.COM> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I am hoping that you can suggest a solution or point me in the right direction. I have just acquired a copy FreeBSD 2.0 on the Walnut Creek CDRom. I am trying to perform an install and not getting anywhere. I created the boot diskettes using rawwrite and tested it on an IDE hard disk anc controller which I had, not realising that FreeBSD cannot access the cdrom in a sound card for data purposes. I have now installed an Adaptec AHA-1542 and Segate Barracuda 2Gb. The rest of the system is a Pentium 90Mhz with 16Mb ram, 512Kb VGA, and a matshita scsi cdrom. It had an IDE controller to give me two serial ports but I have removed it temporarily thinking that it may be responsible for some of my problems. WHAT happens ? The system starts up, reads the diskette and intialises a whole bunch of things. It then starts to talk to ahc... then ahb.. and then aha... and gives a message "waiting for SCSI devices to settle". After about 1 minute it returns with the message that the controller is frozen. I have test the same hardware and am able to boot under dos and read the scsi disk and make a partition on the hdd. I have browsed the CD for some time looking for any literature that may tell me how to resolve this or at least what to look for. I would appreciate any assistance that can be given Regards and Thanks Dave Franco from Harare Zimbabwe