From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 23 17: 5:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0793037B401 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:05:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccimhc01.insightbb.com (sccimhc01.insightbb.com [63.240.76.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A790E43FBF for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:05:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dherring@uiuc.edu) Received: from 12-221-66-128.client.insightBB.com ([12.221.66.128]) by sccimhc01.insightbb.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20030224010528.RKKB5831.sccimhc01.insightbb.com@12-221-66-128.client.insightBB.com> for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 01:05:28 +0000 Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:07:00 -0600 (Central Standard Time) From: Daniel Herring To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Trouble with 5.0-RELEASE boot floppies Message-ID: X-X-Sender: dherring@express.cites.uiuc.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here's the situation: Machine: 150MHz Pentium, 16MB ram, 1.5Gig HD Current OS: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE Desired OS: FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE I downloaded and copied "kern.flp" and "mfsroot.flp" onto two freshly-formatted floppies (no errors). Boot the machine. It loads both floppies, starts the kernel, prepares for sysinstall, and freezes. After this, the machine doesn't respond to any keyboard events (Excape, Num-lock, 3-fingered-salute, ...). Here's the last screen before it dies: | sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> | sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 | sio0: type 16550A | sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 | sio1: port may not be enabled | vga0: at port 0x2f8-0x307 irq 3 on isa 0 | sio4: at port 0x2f8-0x307 irq 3 in isa0 | sio4: type 16550A | unknown: can't assign resources (port) | unknown: can't assign resources (irq) | unknown: can't assign resources (port) | unknown: can't assign resources (port) | unknown: can't assign resources (irq) | unknown: can't assign resources (port) | unknown: can't assign resources (port) | unknown: can't assign resources (port) | Time counters tick every 10.000 msec | ata1_slave: timeout waiting for interrupt | ata1_slave: ATAPI identify failed | ad0: 1549MB [3148/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO | acd0: CDROM at ata1-master BIOSPIO | Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0 | /stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0 Does anyone have any idea what is wrong or how I can avoid this? I successfully installed version 4-3 from boot floppies a couple years ago... Version 4.3 still boots fine... This happens even if I disconnect the HD... I've enabled and disabled most of the BIOS settings (ports, PNP OS, ...) Also, these boot floppies successfully load on my other computer. Thanks for your time, Daniel Herring dherring@uiuc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message