From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 24 18:52:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.236.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6869B37B59B for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 18:52:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from inacio@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from ece.cmu.edu (BOORADLEY.REM.CMU.EDU [128.2.81.114]) by ece.cmu.edu (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA23139 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 21:52:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <392C8754.97AA95A9@ece.cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 21:52:20 -0400 From: Chris Inacio Organization: Carnegie Mellon University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: can't boot 4.0-RELEASE boot floppies Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message