From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 12 23:39:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA14869 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:39:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu ([128.223.186.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA14862 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:39:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA00995; Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:39:57 -0700 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 23:39:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Beau Giles cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install In-Reply-To: <19960711221956890.AAA221@vrml> 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 Thu, 11 Jul 1996, Beau Giles wrote: > I'm booting up with the boot disk and the generic kernel recoginizes my > floppy, hard, and SCSI CD-ROM drives, then everything goes blank except for > a large white cursor in the lower left hand corner. Nothing happens next, > it just sits there. One of a few things: 1. It's going hunting for something, maybe CD media. Give it a bit. 2. You're being bit by the sio probe bug. Try disabling sio3 and 4 and try it. If that doesn't work, disable all of them, and see if that helps. 3. Bad boot floppy. Try a clean, error-free disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major