From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 11 15:31: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pokey.local.net (tcs6-27.netwalk.net [206.175.76.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E435E14EF8 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 15:31:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmutter@netwalk.com) Received: from insomnia (insomnia [192.168.2.3]) by pokey.local.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA01069 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 11:51:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jmutter@insomnia.local.net) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 11:54:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@netwalk.com To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Installation problems with Micronics M4PI system board. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi people, I'm having a problem with the installation of 3.1 on a Micronics M4PI system board. I'm providing a short description of the board for those who are not familiar with it: * 486 support, up to the DX4/100, also Intel "Overdrive" CPU's * 3 PCI Slots, (1 shared) * 5 ISA * PCI Mode 3 IDE Drive Controller * Intel Saturn Chipset. When I try to install 3.X from the installation disks I get to the point just before the curses based installation menu (past the "Configure kernel in mode XXX or skip to continue with installation). The last thing I see is something to the effect of: Rootfs is 2880 compiled in MFS Then it just hangs, no strange debug messages to the console, it just quits. Additionally, I've tried inserting a HDD which already contains a working FreeBSD 3.X install, it too hangs, just before it tries to mount the drives. ------- It should be noted that this has all been tried while I have 3 cards in the system, 1 PCI video card, 1 LinkSys 10Mbit PCI NIC, 1 Netgear 10/100 Mbit NIC. I've tried removing them one at a time, and replacing them with different cards, several different combinations. So far nothing has worked. If however, I attempt to install without any NIC's in the machine I can get at least to the installation menu. (I've not gone further than that because I really need at least 1 NIC in the machine for the installation). This problem has been duplicated on several machines with the same board, and same hardware so I think we can eliminate a flaky system. (physically different machines though). Any ideas? I've never experienced a problem like this before. Thanks for your help, Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message