Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 13:37:16 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 install woes Message-ID: <36C01DEC.E580B6DE@altavista.net> References: <199902091124.MAA05261@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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This sometimes can happen :( However, to avoid hungs - boot with -c option and in visual configure mode disable all devices which you doesn't have. Maxim Christoph Kukulies wrote: > I took a 3.0 kernel #3 floppy and tried to install 3.0 on two systems > and both failed: > > 1. System: > > PCB Motherboard , Amd 386/40, Cyrix FasMath (w/ or w/o) > 8 MB, IDE IBM DHEA 38451 (16384/16/63) > > The most I could achieve was booting up into blue install screen > mode but got hung during probing devices (only NE2000, VGA and IDE > controller present, nothing fancy). > > 2. System > > ASUS P55T2P4, same HD, but also SCSI disks and a Syquest removable > medium. P5/200, 128 MB, xl0 network device. > > Symptoms: > > at boot: prompt there is a long beep (for a second or so) > > finds xl0, SCSI disks but wdc0 and wdc1 are not found !. > (although the HD is there in the BIOS) > > Comes up into install mode, but when choosing custom->partition > there are No disks found. > > > -- > Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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