From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 23 10: 7:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C62414D71 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:07:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA21670; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:22:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:22:08 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Ivan Samuelson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 3.1 on HP Vectra VL 6 Series 7 DT In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Ivan Samuelson wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.1 onto an HP Vectra VL 6/266 Series 7 DT > PC. It's a PII-233 with 32 megs of memory, 4 gig IDE harddrive, a Cirrus Logic > 546X video card (AGP), Diamond Monster 3D card, SMC EtherEZ (8416) ethernet > card, Aztech 23230 Compatible PnP Audio card (came with machine), Matshita > CD-ROM CR-588 (IDE) and a Phoenix BIOS 6.0.0 > > I can boot the Kernel floppy with no problem. When I insert the MFS root floppy > and hit enter, I get the following dump: > > int=0000000e eir=00000004 efl=00030246 eip=000020da > eax=00002001 ebx=00000000 ecx=0000df07 edx=000003f5 > esi=0000a6fc edi=0000a6fc ebp=000003da esp=000003d0 > cs=ebfa ds=0040 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9db7 > cs:eip=8a 64 0a 8a c4 d0 e4 c0-e8 02 02 e0 b0 ff 2a c4 > ss:esp=00 f0 fd 20 ca 28 31 25-fc a6 00 00 fe 9d fc a6 > System Halted Could you format the disks again, or use different floppies and try again? Most really weird booth problems are caused by bad floppies. Then just use "fdimage.exe" to make the floppies again. (It seems that Linux's 'dd' doesn't make for good boot floppies.) If this doesn't help, then please post again we'd love to help. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message