Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 19:07:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Travis Campbell <hcoyote@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu> To: mykes@sportsextra.com (Mike Schwartz) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange installation problem Message-ID: <199708160007.TAA12220@piglet.cc.utexas.edu> In-Reply-To: <01BCA995.B3D14970.mykes@sportsextra.com> from "Mike Schwartz" at Aug 15, 97 04:10:08 pm
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I've recently run into this same problem on a 486dx2 66mhz machine.
Hardware:
486dx2 66Mhz on a no name motherboard.
Buslogic 445c.
Trident 9400Cxi (VLB)
Conner 1.08gig SCSI hard drive.
Sony 2x CDROM
Chinon 2x CDROM
NE2000 clone Ethernet card.
SoundBlaster 3.2
Hayes 28800 modem.
16 megs RAM.
I've tried both the "old" and the "new" 2.2.2 boot floppies, as well as
a boot floppy from the RELENG_2_2 branch. No dice. The machine still
hangs on "Booting the kernel".
boot:
Booting 0:fd(0,a)kernel @ 0x279000
text=0x125000 data=0x0 bss=0xa00 symbols[+0x600+0x4+0x270+0x4+01f4]
total=0x39f46c entry point=0x279000
Uncompressing kernel...done
Booting the kernel
At this point, it hangs.
I know the system works with 2.2.2 kernels, as long as they're custom
compiled. (The GENERIC kernel on the CD failed as well).
Any clues on solving this would be appreciated.
Travis
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>
> 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...
>
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