From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 20 9:26:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98BE137B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:26:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC2C43E91 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:26:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 6865 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2002 17:26:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 20 Nov 2002 17:26:10 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAKHQ42D035111; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:26:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2F03DF3DDE57D411AFF4009027B8C3670289D549@exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:26:09 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "local.freebsd.current" Subject: Re: DP2 (I think!) crash booting from floppies Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20-Nov-2002 local.freebsd.current wrote: > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:32:29 -0000, local.freebsd.current@insignia.com > ("local.freebsd.current") wrote: > >>I got a pair of floppies from: >> >>ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/5.0-20021103-SNAP/floppies > / >> >>and booted them on a Dell Dimension XPS D300 which is currently >>running 4.7. It's a PII/300 with an Adaptec 2940 SCSI and an >>STB Riva graphics card. > > I've now tried a third machine, one whose disk I can overwrite. > This is a PII/400 (MSI 6119 board) with two IDE drives, an IDE > CD, a Kingston (Realtek) NIC and ATI graphics. > > I can get as far as FDISK but when I hit A to use the entire > disk, nothing happens. It doesn't respond to the keyboard at > all. Numlock still toggles the light so *something* is there, > but not a lot. Can you use Alt-F2 to switch to the debug terminal and see if there is any output? You probably want to switch before you do the fdisk, then switch again afterwards to see if there is any new output. You can get back to the main screen from the debug terminal by using Alt-F1. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message