Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:16:01 -0800 From: Brent Kearney <brent@kearneys.ca> To: Barth Weishoff <bweishof@cb670867-b.mdsn1.wi.home.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: AMD Athlon and booting. Message-ID: <20000316081601.B38453@kearneys.ca> In-Reply-To: <20000316091624.A7641@cb670867-b.mdsn1.wi.home.com>; from bweishof@cb670867-b.mdsn1.wi.home.com on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 09:16:24AM -0600 References: <20000316091624.A7641@cb670867-b.mdsn1.wi.home.com>
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--kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 09:16:24AM -0600, Barth Weishoff wrote: >=20 > I have an AMD Athlon based system that is locking upon bootup while tryin= g=20 > to boot from either the distro CD (3.4-R and 4.0-RC3) or the floppy disks. >=20 > The system will display this message: >=20 > /boot.config: -P > Keyboard: no >=20 > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 >=20 > At this point the machine locks. The machine configuration is as follow= s: >=20 > AMD Athlon 650MHz > FIC SD-II mainboard - http://www.fic.com.tw/motherboards/sd11/sd11intro.h= tm > Maxtor UDMA Mode 4 IDE disk on Primary IDE channel > Generic IDE CD-ROM on secondary IDE channel > Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller > Quantum Wide SCSI drive > Yamaha CDR drive CDR102 SCSI drive > 196,608KB PC-100 memory > Diamond TNT2 Ultra AGP video (32mb) > Soundblaster AWE64 > Happauge! WinTV Bt848 television adapter > Generic DC21x4 10/100 ethernet adapter >=20 Barth, I have read testimony of FreeBSD not handling IDE CDROM drives=20 on the second IDE channel very well. Although, I have never personally=20 had this problem with FreeBSD (3.0->3.4), there have been numerous posts to questions@ about this "bug". This is just a guess - I'm sure others will have more. -Brent --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: cSyPTVPILB1HgTJsPcFNhDNKT4NQxA4I iQA/AwUBONEIv/5LgQMksPsjEQIpVwCfUKG07NEnMdzFNwb8w/WlTU2pgpsAoMLg aPI2c6QtLqID9k3nHDu9Jst0 =H3z4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kXdP64Ggrk/fb43R-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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