Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 02:58:43 +0100 From: Asgeir Halldorsson <sauri@islandia.is> To: SINELNIKOV@sbmp04.ess.sunysb.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can not boot??? Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960425015843.006a0dec@islandia.is>
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At 16:29 24.4.1996 -0400, you wrote: > >Hello list, > >I would greatly appriciate and be thankfull for any help. > >Problem: cannot boot to just installed FreeBSD > >Hardware: > >Mather: DIGIS 486NL >Processor: Intel 486SX 40MHz (8Mb memory) >HDD: IDE >Controller: VESA local bus S1345 VL IDE&i/o controller >Network card: Ether Elita 16 Ultra > >Please, send me a message if you find any of the components >listed above unsupported by FreeBSD. From FreeBSD handbook >I got only suspicious about Ethernet card. > >So I decided to proceed and installed FreeBSD from another >harddrive (in minimal configuration). I allocated the whole >450Mb disk for it and run Novice instalation. Installation >was completed succesfully. > >However I could not boot to FreeBSD from that disk. The >default settings apparently were hanging the computer so >I had to give it a cold reboot. If I tryed to specify some >other command at the boot prompt, it allowed me to do so, >but later kept on rebooting after each hit of Return key. >I tryed different partition of the disk but that did not >help either. > >Please help me to find a reason why it happened. Do I have >to change the hardware or it can be solved by some other >actions, like proper configuration, may be. > >Thank you for your help in advance > > Yegor > > FreeBSD can't boot on Disk 2 i tryed that about 30 times :-( ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Asgeir Halldorsson geiri@islandia.is sauri@islandia.is
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