Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 14:27:42 PDT From: Frank Cameron <fjcameron@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: admin@wholesalehosting.com Subject: Re: Initial Install Message-ID: <19990608212742.47946.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Should probably goto freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.
Have you tried booting the kernel from the harddrive into kernel config mode
('boot -c'?) and re-resolving conflicts? That may enable you get in and
build a working custom kernel.
Frank
>From: "WholesaleHosting.com" <admin@wholesalehosting.com>
>To: FreeBSD-ISP <FreeBSD-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG>
>Subject: Initial Install
>Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 14:42:22 -0500
. . .
>I've installed freebsd 3.1 on two other machines with virtually no
>problems. I don't really understand yet how much works..
>Upon installing it on my last computer, an IBM Aptiva, I find myself unable
>to even get thru the install.
>I boot from .flp disks and config kernal to resolve conflicts, then
>install.. then ports.. then reboot... I never get past the reboot
>because it freezes up while scroling the stuff it scrolls when you boot.
>
>The last thing i see is
> plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus 0
>and.. freeze... I have to reboot with the /flp disc's and re install...
>only to have to start all over 45 minutes later for the same reasons.
>
>Mhouser
>Sorry of this was the wrong domo to mail to - its the only one I could
>remember.
>
>Mhouser
>mhouser@wholesalehosting.com
>
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