From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 19 20:57:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA02707 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 20:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.winc.com (root@home.winc.com [204.178.182.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA02701 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 20:57:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phoenix.aristar.com (slip125.winc.com [204.178.182.125]) by home.winc.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA13736; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 23:57:08 -0400 Message-ID: <3269A36C.41C67EA6@aristar.com> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 23:58:36 -0400 From: "Matthew A. Gessner" Organization: Aristar, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers Subject: install on Dell P60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, all, Something funny's going on here. I've installed FreeBSD 2.1.0 on my machine at home, a Dell Dimension Pentium 60 MHz w/ 16MB RAM and 2 500MB harddrives and a 250MB IOMega tape drive (ft0) and a panasonic/matsushita CDROM. Previously, I had linux installed, only before I'd gotten FreeBSD up and running at work. Well, the installation goes fine, but when I try to reboot, my system does a hard reboot after the first couple of /-\|/ go by. When I try to boot from the floppy to wd(1,a)/kernel, I get further, but eventually the kernel panics. I can't think of anything I did wrong. I set wd1a bootable which is where my kernel resides, DOS still boots OK. Can anyone give me some insight or start asking me questions to see if I can pin down what's wrong? I love the way the installation is made so easy, and I really can't figure out what I've done wrong. TIA, Matt -- Matthew Gessner, Computer Scientist, Aristar, Inc. 302 N. Cleveland-Massillon Rd. Akron, OH 44333 Voice (330) 668-2267, Fax (330) 668-2961