From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 18 15:31:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 068A316A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:31:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9CAF43D48 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:31:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id i6IFVIia000732; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 18:31:19 +0300 Message-Id: <200407181531.i6IFVIia000732@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 18 Jul 04 18:31:20 +0300 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 18 Jul 04 18:30:54 +0300 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: Ron McCy Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 18:30:49 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal In-reply-to: <40F7F8E1.1060407@kc.rr.com> cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.x Installation failure - White Stripes on initial boot. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:31:22 -0000 Hi! > Computer: SpaceWalker-Pentium III.800mHz, 256MB, 20GB > hd running FreeBSD 4.8 as the only operating system. > Goal: Non graphical work stattion - possible Samba > server. > > After an minimal installation the system "freezes" > shortly after passing the boot manager and the monitor > shows several long, white vertical stripes that > resemble bar codes. The system is unresponsive and has > to be forced to cold boot. Does this also happen when you boot to single user mode? If it does, then I'm not sure what's wrong - sounds like some hardware incompatibility. Maybe someone can tell after seeing the dmesg. If it doesn't then I'm curious exactly what kind of install did you do? What distributions did you choose to install? It may be worth to install only the bare minimum at first and later add everything else via ports/packages - that's what I usually do. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Money is the root of all evil. For more info send $39