From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 17:33:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26917 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 17:33:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cloister.beloit.edu (cloister.beloit.edu [144.89.172.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA26715 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 17:31:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from friar@cloister.beloit.edu) Received: (from friar@localhost) by cloister.beloit.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) id TAA01965 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 19:29:20 -0600 (CST) From: Tom Walcott Message-Id: <199801150129.TAA01965@cloister.beloit.edu> Subject: Install difficulty. To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 19:29:14 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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.