From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 18 16:09:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22E2216A4CE for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:09:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-03.rdc-kc.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.rdc-kc.rr.com [24.94.166.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB4C443D46 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:09:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mccyron@kc.rr.com) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (CPE-24-31-242-16.kc.rr.com [24.31.242.16]) i6IG9sjE005549; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:09:54 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <40FAA0CB.6010604@kc.rr.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:09:47 -0500 From: Ron McCy User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200407181531.i6IFVIia000732@lv.raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <200407181531.i6IFVIia000732@lv.raad.tartu.ee> X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: 4.x Installation failure - White Stripes on initial boot. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 16:09:58 -0000 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