From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 19:38:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA20349 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 19:38:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cyburbia.bns.com.au (cyburbia.bns.com.au [203.19.43.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA20331 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 19:37:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from justin@localhost) by cyburbia.bns.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA15585; Sat, 27 Apr 1996 12:18:02 GMT Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 12:18:02 +0000 () From: Justin Viiret To: Michael Smith cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install hangs at 'rootfs is...' In-Reply-To: <199604261414.XAA03775@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 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 Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > > changing root device to fd0c > > rootfs is 1116 Kbyte compiled in MFS > > > > And then the machine hangs. Can you help me here? The machine's fairly > > standard... 8MB RAM, two IDE drives, all run-of-the-mill stuff. Any ideas? > > Turn off all the caching (internal and external); there are problems with > some Cyrix parts. This may help. Did that, tried again and things worked fine... however, I had to cancel the installation and fix something else - when I tried again, with the same CMOS settings, the problem resurfaced. Any ideas as to anything else that I could try? /-------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Justin Viiret Cyburbia Network Services | | justin@cyburbia.bns.com.au Co-sysadmin | | http://cyburbia.bns.com.au/~justin A96 Music Competition (dis)Organiser | \------------------[Relax, it's only ones and zeroes.]--------------------/