Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:09:47 -0500 From: Ron McCy <mccyron@kc.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.x Installation failure - White Stripes on initial boot. Message-ID: <40FAA0CB.6010604@kc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200407181531.i6IFVIia000732@lv.raad.tartu.ee> References: <200407181531.i6IFVIia000732@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
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Toomas Aas wrote: >Hi! > > > >> Computer: SpaceWalker-Pentium III.800mHz, 256MB, 20GB >> hd running FreeBSD 4.8 as the only operating system. >> Goal: Non graphical work stattion - possible Samba >> server. >> >>After an minimal installation the system "freezes" >>shortly after passing the boot manager and the monitor >>shows several long, white vertical stripes that >>resemble bar codes. The system is unresponsive and has >>to be forced to cold boot. >> >> > >Does this also happen when you boot to single user mode? > >If it does, then I'm not sure what's wrong - sounds like some hardware >incompatibility. Maybe someone can tell after seeing the dmesg. > >If it doesn't then I'm curious exactly what kind of install did you do? >What distributions did you choose to install? It may be worth to >install only the bare minimum at first and later add everything else >via ports/packages - that's what I usually do. >-- >Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ >* Money is the root of all evil. For more info send $39 > > > > I tried installing the MINIMAL installation with 4.9 and 4.8. The thing dies so quickly- shortly afterh the boot manager completes - I don't get a boot option as with my other FreeBSD computers. My only hope in figuring this our via dmesg is through a trial installation I did with SuSe Linux...which works fine. Thanks
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