From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 25 18:12:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A1A537B401 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:12:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fscked@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net ([63.203.76.99]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0G9C00KXNDSVNJ@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:05:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:18:25 -0800 From: richard childers Subject: Re: boot of 4.2R hangs To: pbdlists@pinboard.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3A99BCF1.AB6A9E1F@pacbell.net> Organization: The Free State of Dis MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <20010225234238.A36602@pinboard.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try downloading the bootable ".flp" images from ftp.freebsd.org. I had a similar problem and I found that this resolved the issue. (I'm wrestling with X11 now so I haven't dug deeper.) -- richard pbdlists@pinboard.com wrote: > Has anybody got an idea what the heck I have to do to get the 4.2R > installaiton media to load properly? I've tried on different machines, > I've tried on SCSI CD-ROM's and IDE CD-ROM's, I've tried to boot from > the CD and from the floppies, I've also tried the floppies of the latest > -STABLE, but all with the same result: when the devices are being > scanned it gets as far as the parallel port and then it sits there and > does nothing. The last line on the screen says > > plip0: on ppbus0 > > and there it stays. I've also tried disabling any and all devices which > are not absolutely required for the install, but it still stops. > > I've been using FreeBSD since v2.0.5 on lots of machines, but I've never > had a problem like this before. Also all the previous releases boot, > install and run just fine on the same machines, so it should not be > anything with the hardware. > > Any hints eagerly accepted. > > Kurt > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The box said: "Requires Windows 95 or better", so I installed FreeBSD. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Richard A. Childers Senor UNIX Administrator fscked@pacbell.net (email) 203.556.8471 (voice/msgs) # Providing administrative expertise (not 'damage control') since 1986. # PGP fingerprint: 7EFF 164A E878 7B04 8E9F 32B6 72C2 D8A2 582C 4AFA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message