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Date:      Thu, 8 Nov 2001 08:31:36 -0800
From:      "Corbin Smith" <shadewalk@yahoo.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   help? boot-up buffer error. 
Message-ID:  <KGELLDILHCGFNNJBPNMKIEKLCCAA.shadewalk@yahoo.com>

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I'll admit, I'm a complete newbie.
However, I have diligently hit every faq I can find and no one seems to have
this particular problem.

I installed 4.4 stable on a sony vaio pcg-fx120. I got passed the initial
errors associated with the sony pcic structure to actually get in the
installation.
Now the problem is that after the installation is complete, and it reboots,
it does the usual boot-up messaging issues. Once it gets to

mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a

It stops. The system is not hung, but I can't leave the buffer. I have used
scroll-lock, but this only makes the cursor disapear and reappear. No
keyboard input appears on the screen. Pgup and Pgdown serve no purpose.

When I use crtl-alt-del it seems to break the problem and shows me all the
login info, including the key strokes. Unfortuantely it also rebooting.

Thanks.
-c


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