Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 10:25:20 -0500 From: "Darryl Hoar" <darryl@osborne-ind.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: 5.4-release install problem Message-ID: <002b01c59908$ba3cebf0$0701a8c0@darryl> In-Reply-To: <002a01c59907$25c51160$0701a8c0@darryl>
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-----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Darryl Hoar Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:14 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 5.4-release install problem -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Bryan Maynard Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 4:39 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4-release install problem On Thursday 04 August 2005 02:33 pm, Darryl Hoar wrote: >Greetings, >I downloaded the 5.4-release iso images from the freebsd website. >I used my windows machine and Nero to burn the iso images to >cd's. > >I have an old machine that I am trying to install 5.4-release on. >It is a PII 333, SCSI with 30GB scsi hard drive. > >I place cd 1 in the drive (disk 1 iso) and reboot the machine. >When it boots, it looks to the cdrom drive as the first boot device. >When it does, my screen is full of scrolling text which looks like >dump info. It scrolls on and on. If the text starts grey, then switches to white, then turns grey again that's FreeBSD booting. After a little bit sysinstall should load. sysinstall is the utility used to install FreeBSD. >Any ideas on the problem ? >So far it doesn't sound like anything is wrong. Have you read the >handbook at: >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html ? >thanks, >Darryl >Bryan ><snip> >Well, >I went and tried to look at the scrolling text. It had several columsn >with "in" "err" "ef1" "cip". Their is a line that says: >BTX Halted. >ss:esp= >I'm pretty sure this is not the normal boot process. I'll look at the >handbook as suggested. >-Darryl Checked the handbook and nothing really relevant to this problem. Also, this machine is currently running 5.1-release, so I know the hardware is good.
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