Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 21:52:20 -0400 From: Chris Inacio <inacio@ece.cmu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: can't boot 4.0-RELEASE boot floppies Message-ID: <392C8754.97AA95A9@ece.cmu.edu>
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Hello all,
I would like to install 4.0-RELEASE, but I can't boot the install
floppies. (Presumably I can't boot the actual FreeBSD 4.0 kernel
either.) The machine I want to install this one was running FreeBSD 3.2
on it, which installed without too many problems. I tried to install
3.4 on it, and that kernel also failed. On the 4.0 kernel it stops at
"md1: malloc disk", at which the machine is locked hard (requires the
reset button or the power switch.)
I admit that my hardware is a little strange. I have three SCSI (two
SCA) drives on two different SCSI controllers. (I also have a SCSI
CD-ROM drive, which I tried to boot off of, but that didn't work.)
Anyway, the machine has two 7870 controller chips (along with the unused
IDE controllers,) built onto the motherboard. It's a dual processor
pentium pro machine, actually a 133 MHz. It's actually an Intel
engineering sample machine -- so the hardware could be pretty strange,
although it has generally worked reasonably well.
I installed a DOS boot partition with the SCSI and CD-ROM drivers enough
so that I can access the drive, although I have no idea how that can
help me.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated,
(please send email if you can....)
thanks in advance,
Chris Inacio
inacio@ece.cmu.edu
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