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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 1996 00:00:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Teo Chee Kiat <"Teo Chee Kiat"@pacific.net.sg>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Newbie onFreeBSD: HELP!!!!!!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961017000010.3139Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <32652113.6048@pacific.net.sg>

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On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Teo Chee Kiat wrote:

> I recently obtained FreeBSD for installation.  I had partitioned my 1 GB
> IDE HD into 3 partition. I have trouble during booting from the floppy
> during installation:  The boot cannot be completed...after the loading
> messages reached around "Probing for devices on the ISA bus" my monitor
> display goes blank and the entire systems hangs. I wonder if anyone had
> reported this problem before?

Install 2.1.5 OR disable all of the sio ports in userconfig (-c).  

This is a known bug, affecting Mach64 and some S3 adapters.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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