Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:14:54 -0700 From: "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" <Emmanuel.Gravel@CAS.honeywell.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Installation glitches Message-ID: <417E587B9C99D111A1010000F803B7CE4DD80A@az77-revere.bcasd.az.honeywell.com>
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I recently purchased 2.2.7 and tried installing from both the floppy and CD-Rom. I have a dedicated machine. P90 on a three year old ASUS board with a more recent BIOS (that's made for the board). 2 Gig Fujitsu IDE HD. 32MB EDO RAM. ATI Mach64 graphics card. 3Com 3C509B TPO network card (PnP mode disabled). SB16 Vibra PnP sound card. 32X ATAPI CD-Rom (fairly generic). 3 button Logitech mouse (serial). Here are the problems I went up against (I am wondering what might cause them and how to fix them). When booting (either from floppy or CD-Rom) I get a first screen telling me I can either boot without changing the kernel, modify the kernel from a GUI, or modify it command-line. I chose the second option and removed anything I knew I didn't have, and whatever caused conflicts (which I also didn't have). Then I tell it to save changes and boot from the new config. It brings an almost blank screen (except for a rectangular cursor on the top left) and hangs there. If I chose not to modify the kernel, it boots without a problem (except a few warnings of non existant hardware). This happens no matter if I boot from floppy (not write protected of course) or CD-Rom. Second: when telling the partitionning software to check for bad blocks, it completely locks up straight off the bat when it starts checking. My guess is that this is a problem somewhere in my hardware, since this option wouldn't exist if it did that to every computer. Any ideas on what might cause this? This is, after all, a dedicated machine which will never have any other OS. I'm sure I had one last problem, but it doesn't come to mind right now. And for some reason, I'm sure that any solution to these two problems would either also solve most other problems, or at least point me in the right direction to solving it myself. Thanks for your help! Manu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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