From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 29 21:27:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA18156 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:27:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from GATE1.tomatoweb.com (gate1.tomatoweb.com [208.131.18.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA18146 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:27:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdg@tomatoweb.com) Received: from gate67.tomatoweb.com ([208.131.18.164]) by GATE1.tomatoweb.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO205-101c) ID# 0-43988U2500L250S0) with SMTP id AAA255; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:23:34 -0800 Message-Id: <1.5.4.16.19980130052227.33170600@gate1.tomatoweb.com> X-Sender: jdg@gate1.tomatoweb.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 21:22:27 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: John David Galt Subject: install hangs Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" I'm trying to set up a new standalone FreeBSD 2.2.5 system, from the November CD-ROMs, using a boot floppy as per the manual. The floppy boots up, I get through UserConfig, and all the devices are displayed correctly (except of course COM3 and COM4). Then the system displays the line /stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0 , clears the screen, and hangs! (I can then view the device output by hitting Scroll Lock and PageUp, but other than that, nothing happens even if I wait 10 minutes.) Hardware details: CPU is AMD 386DX / 33, 8 meg RAM, AMI BIOS dated 1990 Trident VGA card QuickPath Systems Portfolio XP controller for IDE/floppies/serial/parallel, settings: COM1 port=3F8 IRQ4 (Microsoft Mouse) COM2 port=2F8 IRQ3 COM3 port=3E8 IRQ3 COM4 port=2E8 IRQ3 LPT1 port=378 IRQ7 LPT2 port=278 (IRQ disabled) 2 floppies (1.44 and 1.2) 2 IDE hard drives (105 and 340 meg), mapped correctly Trantor SCSI controller, port=350h, IRQ5, addr=DA000 (which I set up in UserConfig as nca0, setting the above numbers manually) ShinaKen CD-ROM (SCSI address 1) No network card. The BIOS is set to boot from C:,A: (It can't boot from the SCSI controller because that was added after I had the system, and has its own BIOS.) UserConfig reports no hardware conflicts, and indeed there are none, since this was (until recently) a working DOS 5.0 / Windows 3.1 system. However, I wiped the hard drive for copyright reasons, when I moved DOS and Windows to a new machine. Any and all hints would be very much appreciated. Thanks! John David Galt