From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 12 9:29:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nmail.devrycols.edu (nmail.devrycols.edu [199.218.238.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9723014D63 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:29:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jm7996@devrycols.edu) Received: from cis060 [131.187.253.210] by nmail.devrycols.edu (SMTPD32-4.07) id AEDC2D30138; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 12:27:08 EST Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990412122622.007c0e10@devrycols.edu> X-Sender: jm7996@devrycols.edu (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 12:26:22 -0400 To: jmutter@netwalk.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: "James A. Mutter" Subject: UPDATE ** Installation problems with Micronics M4PI system board.** In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A bit more info. It appears that I was mistaken when I said that FreeBSD stops running, but rather stops updating the display. Here's a quick summary: * Kernel messages (IE: Hardware Probes) are printed to the screen * Nothing else is. * This only happens when a PCI card is installed, everything works fine with an ISA NIC. * The system works fine with DOS, I havn't tried Windows. * I'm sure that the system is running because I can telnet/ftp/ping/etc... Any ideas? At 11:54 AM 4/11/99 -0400, James A. Mutter wrote: > >Hi people, > >I'm having a problem with the installation of 3.1 on a Micronics M4PI >system board. I'm providing a short description of the board for >those who are not familiar with it: > > * 486 support, up to the DX4/100, also Intel "Overdrive" CPU's > * 3 PCI Slots, (1 shared) > * 5 ISA > * PCI Mode 3 IDE Drive Controller > * Intel Saturn Chipset. > >When I try to install 3.X from the installation disks I get to the >point just before the curses based installation menu (past the >"Configure kernel in mode XXX or skip to continue with installation). >The last thing I see is something to the effect of: > > Rootfs is 2880 compiled in MFS > >Then it just hangs, no strange debug messages to the console, it just >quits. > >Additionally, I've tried inserting a HDD which already contains a >working FreeBSD 3.X install, it too hangs, just before it tries to >mount the drives. > >------- > >It should be noted that this has all been tried while I have 3 cards >in the system, 1 PCI video card, 1 LinkSys 10Mbit PCI NIC, 1 Netgear >10/100 Mbit NIC. I've tried removing them one at a time, and >replacing them with different cards, several different combinations. >So far nothing has worked. If however, I attempt to install without >any NIC's in the machine I can get at least to the installation menu. >(I've not gone further than that because I really need at least 1 NIC >in the machine for the installation). > >This problem has been duplicated on several machines with the same >board, and same hardware so I think we can eliminate a flaky system. >(physically different machines though). > >Any ideas? I've never experienced a problem like this before. > > >Thanks for your help, > >Jim > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message