From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 00:25:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA29042 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:25:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line8.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.123]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA29006 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:25:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA01127; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:25:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:25:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Erik Johannessen cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems Booting FreeBSD 2.1.5 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Erik Johannessen wrote: > I tried to install FreeBSD 2.1.5 on a Micron Millena P133, with a 3com595 > ethernet card, a buslogic MulitMaster PCI SCSI adapter. > > The problem I am having is trying to boot the boot floppy, it finds the > ethernet card ok, and then it finds the buslogic, but it doesn't seem to > get the right revision number of it, displaying some wierd 8bit > characters, it then times out on the SCSI bus, and panics, crashing the > whole boot, I tried the newest snap aswell, with same result. Any idea of > why this could be happening, or how to solve it? Hm. Either a device conflict or the MultiMaster isn't supported. Boot with the -c option and disable everything but the bare necessities. > The machine runs Win95 and Linux just fine... Doesn't everything? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major