Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 01:18:12 -0400 (EDT) From: CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net> To: mph@pobox.com (Matthew Hunt) Cc: darknight@biosys.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation problem... Message-ID: <199806040518.BAA08208@lucy.bedford.net> In-Reply-To: <19980604004024.A17593@mstar.astro.psu.edu> from Matthew Hunt at "Jun 4, 98 00:40:24 am"
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Matthew Hunt wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 09:02:57PM -0700, DarKnight wrote:
>
> > after i setup my hardware configuration and save it, it's supposted to
> > begin to boot, probing for hardware etc right? well, mine just freezes
> > with a cursor at the top of the screen, any help would be GREATLY
> > appreciated, thanks.
>
> Be sure that you aren't deleting "sc0" during the hardware
> configuration. This device is the system console, and if you get
> rid of it, FreeBSD obligingly stops using your keyboard and
> video card in favor of a serial console.
>
First on the list of any change to sysinstall help screens ought
to be mention of this. We're getting 3 or 4 "help me"s on this a week,
and who knows how many people just throw up their hands and go back
to their previous life of shame, having falsely concluded that the
installation is hopeless.
I did it the first time -- I falsely figured "system console" was
some driver for the /serial console/ (sc suggests "serial console",
too), particularly since it conflicts with a mouse. (Bogus thinking,
I admit.) Well, more careful examination clued me in, but I suffer
from monomaniacal levels of persistence with these things.
Dave
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