Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:30:01 +0200 From: "Joris Bastiaans" <g.j.a.bastiaans@student.utwente.nl> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE installation fails... Message-ID: <001501c0223d$b97cd7d0$54125982@cs.utwente.nl>
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Dear reader, On my 486DX2, equiped with an old Quantum Maverick harddisk, I installed FreeBSD 3.1 some time ago. I recently tried to reinstall this machine with FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE but had some difficulties. When booting the bootfloppies I created, the systems locks up during the ISA controller's initialization. The 'ata' driver also mentions I have a *buggy* chipset. This doesn't surprise me, because I use an old ESDI harddisk. It doesn't matter how I configure my kernel; in visual, as well as in CLI mode, the systems locks... I figured I needed a specific kernel for my system during the installation... So, I built a custom kernel for that 486DX (on one of my other machines that runs FreeBSD 4.1 rather sincely) and copied it over the GENERIC kernel on the bootfloppy... The kernel boots without errors (yeah!) and detects my wd0 harddisk properly, just like my running 3.1 version, but when I try to do a 'standard installation', sysinstall tells me I don't have any fixed disks installed... (h-uh?) What's wrong? Do I have to create a new MFSROOT disk with an adapted version of sysinstall as well, or could there be something wrong in the process of creating that bootfloppy with my custom kernel. Is there any other way I can install FreeBSD 4.1 on this system (I prefer a clean reinstall!)? Thanks in advance, Joris Bastiaans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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