Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 19:29:14 -0600 (CST) From: Tom Walcott <friar@cloister.beloit.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Install difficulty. Message-ID: <199801150129.TAA01965@cloister.beloit.edu>
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Hello. I'm sorry to burden you folks, since I'm sure you get more than enough messages of this kind, but I've been playing with this for a few days and don't seem to be getting anywhere. I got a Pentium II from Micron the other day, and want to install FreeBSD on it. I've done this installation before, on a 486, so I know I'm not making any glaringly obvious errors, but... The boot disk loads up fine, and then tries to boot up the kernel prior to permitting installation. I can do some device configuration, which in my case mostly amounts to removing conflicts, since I don't know much about the line-by-line device editor. The problem is that as soon as I quit the configuration menu to let it continue the boot process, FreeBSD first probes the PCI bus, and after outputting vital statistics about the drives, it reaches the ethernet card -- in this case, a 3COM 3C905 -- and then hangs, leaving the disk light on. The only way to reset the computer appears to be a hard boot. I don't know if I've got a hardware incompatability, if I'm doing something exceptionally strange, or what precisely is going on. I was hoping that one of you folks might have some clue, and be willing to share. I appreciate your time and assistance. Tom Walcott friar@cloister.beloit.edu -- The good opinions expressed are my own. The bad opinions expressed were inserted by my enemies. Flame them. Repeatedly.
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