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Date:      Sun, 25 Feb 2001 23:42:38 +0100
From:      pbdlists@pinboard.com
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   boot of 4.2R hangs
Message-ID:  <20010225234238.A36602@pinboard.com>

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Has anybody got an idea what the heck I have to do to get the 4.2R
installaiton media to load properly? I've tried on different machines,
I've tried on SCSI CD-ROM's and IDE CD-ROM's, I've tried to boot from
the CD and from the floppies, I've also tried the floppies of the latest
-STABLE, but all with the same result: when the devices are being
scanned it gets as far as the parallel port and then it sits there and
does nothing. The last line on the screen says

   plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0

and there it stays. I've also tried disabling any and all devices which
are not absolutely required for the install, but it still stops.

I've been using FreeBSD since v2.0.5 on lots of machines, but I've never
had a problem like this before. Also all the previous releases boot,
install and run just fine on the same machines, so it should not be
anything with the hardware.

Any hints eagerly accepted.

Kurt
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The box said: "Requires Windows 95 or better", so I installed FreeBSD.
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