From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 07:17:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA09784 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 07:17:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA09777 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 07:16:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id XAA03775; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 23:44:27 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604261414.XAA03775@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Install hangs at 'rootfs is...' To: justin@cyburbia.bns.com.au (Justin Viiret) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 23:44:26 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Justin Viiret" at Apr 26, 96 11:04:39 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Justin Viiret stands accused of saying: > > I'm currently attempting to install the 2.2-960323 snapshot of freebsd on > a spare cyrix-based 486 we've got here. The boot floppy runs fine, until we > get to: > > changing root device to fd0c > rootfs is 1116 Kbyte compiled in MFS > > And then the machine hangs. Can you help me here? The machine's fairly > standard... 8MB RAM, two IDE drives, all run-of-the-mill stuff. Any ideas? Turn off all the caching (internal and external); there are problems with some Cyrix parts. This may help. > | Justin Viiret Cyburbia Network Services | > | justin@cyburbia.bns.com.au Co-sysadmin | Oooh, a local 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[