From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Dec 5 14:24:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from cassandra.coredump.at (cassandra.coredump.at [194.235.142.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 579AD37B405 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:24:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 296 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Dec 2001 21:58:57 -0000 Message-ID: <20011205215857.470.qmail@cassandra.coredump.at> From: rupp@coredump.at Subject: Re: Install problem on AS200 4/166 In-Reply-To: <15374.40002.476399.463472@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> from Andrew Gallatin at "Dec 5, 2001 05:14:26 pm" To: Andrew Gallatin Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 22:58:57 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > If you mean "for text output", I don't understand. When I boot > > into the installation, it works, the kernel boots, and it comes to > > copying files. If I could not use TGA in any case, it should not work > > that far - should it? > > It depends what you mean by "copying files" After all preliminary setup is done, the setup program starts to retrieve the distribution sets, extracts them and writes the actual files onto the disk. Sometime during this process, usually after several minutes, and never at the same point, the machine freezes. It's like the input was suddenly shut of with a valve. "extracting file - extracting file - ex..[dead]" > Have you actually done 'set console serial' at the >>> prompt, booted > FreeBSD, and started the installation purely on the serial console? Yes, then power cylce, and yes, purely on the serial console. Wolfgang To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message