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Date:      Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:07:00 -0600 (Central Standard Time)
From:      Daniel Herring <dherring@uiuc.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Trouble with 5.0-RELEASE boot floppies
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.4.53.0302231904200.-464223@nuntius.insightbb.com>

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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: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x2f8-0x307 irq 3 on isa 0
| sio4: <RC144AxF> at port 0x2f8-0x307 irq 3 in isa0
| sio4: type 16550A
| unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port)
| unknown: <PNP0f13> can't assign resources (irq)
| unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port)
| unknown: <PNP0400> can't assign resources (port)
| unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (irq)
| unknown: <PNP0680> can't assign resources (port)
| unknown: <PNP0680> can't assign resources (port)
| unknown: <PNP0c02> 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 <WDC AC21600H> [3148/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO
| acd0: CDROM <FX600S> 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

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