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Date:      Sun, 1 Sep 1996 21:45:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Boot Freeze after fsck..
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960901214419.227D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960901175309.183A-100000@tombstone.sunrem.com>

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On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Brandon Gillespie wrote:

> I'm in the process of upgrading from a DELL 486 to a p150 on a tritonII 
> motherboard.  It is SCSI based booting from an IDE drive and serving two 
> SCSI disks through an adapted 1540 controller.  I pull the ram/disks over 
> to the pentium system and boot, everything _seems_ fine except for it 
> just STOPS after fsck reports fragmentation etc on all of the disks.  
> Usually at this point it would do ifconfig, fire up the net and go 
> through the rest of its boot.  I just pulled everything from the pentium 
> system, plugged it into the 486 system and it works fine, completely 
> boots as it should (!?!).

Try hitting Control-C and see what that does.  It may be hanging up on a
nameserver lookup on the ifconfig_xxx lines in sysconfig.  Change any
names there to their respective IP addresses and try that.  

> On the pentium system I can boot to a shell (-s), manually run fsck on 
> the disks and mount them, I can fire up the network by hand and it works, 
> everything SEEMINGLY should work, but it still halts after fsck.
> 
> Help?

Check your Ethernet card configuration too.

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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