From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 15 16:10:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA24144 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 16:10:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.sportsextra.com (shell.sportsextra.com [208.1.220.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA24139 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 16:10:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowdog (snowdog.sportsextra.com [208.1.220.128]) by shell.sportsextra.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA17794 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 16:10:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 16:10:09 -0700 Message-ID: <01BCA995.B3D14970.mykes@sportsextra.com> From: Mike Schwartz To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Strange installation problem Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 16:10:08 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 Encoding: 27 TEXT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've installed FreeBSD quite a few times before, but I've never seen this one and I haven't figured out a solution. Today, I got two new machines, a P150 and a P2 266. I can't install FreeBSD on either machine with the exact same symptoms. The motherboards are different, naturally, so I can't pin it on a bad MB at this point. I downloaded boot.flp from three distributions and made three bootdisks on three separate dos machines. 9 disks total. FreeBSD 2.2.2-release, 2.1.7.1, and 3.0-snapshot. The system loads the floppy sectors, decompresses the kernel, then says "booting the kernel" and hangs. I've done this with ALL cards removed from the systems except for the mono graphics adapters. If I leave the machines alone for a few minutes, the screenblanker kicks in. The P2 has an ASUS KN97-X motherboard. The P150 has a Genoa MB. Any help appreciated... --- Mike Schwartz, Founder Best Internet Communications CEO & Chairman Internet Extra Corporation FREE Sports and Contests at http://www.sportsextra.com