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Date:      Tue, 18 Nov 1997 19:46:31 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Andrew Von Dollen <warn@mail.geocities.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with Install
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971118194550.2219E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19971118171753.006ab3c4@mail.geocities.com>

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On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Andrew Von Dollen wrote:

> Hello, In trying to install freebsd, I have run into a problem which I hope
> is easily worked around.
> 
> I downloaded the files needed to make a boot floppy, made a boot floppy,
> then downloaded the whole bin directory from ftp.freebsd.org.  I then tried
> to boot from the floppy by restarting.  Everything seemed to be going well,
> I got to the Kernel setup screen and edited all of the hardware settings
> according to my system setup.  I quit that, then it went on to the
> 'detecting' screen.  It went through most of the devices, but then, after
> saying "wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa" a blank screen with only a
> cursor in the bottom left came up. It seemed to freeze up at this point, I
> have tried leaving it for quite some time and it still does nothing.

Something on your second IDE controller isn't happy.  Try disabling wdc1
in the boot-time configuration, and check cabling and master/slave
jumpers.

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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