From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 9 02:23:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA26390 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 02:23:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fep6.mail.ozemail.net (fep6.mail.ozemail.net [203.2.192.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA26385; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 02:23:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vapour@digitaldistribution.com) Received: from knight (slmlb8p10.ozemail.com.au [203.108.183.10]) by fep6.mail.ozemail.net (8.9.0/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA15678; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 19:23:33 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <003c01bdf366$880b5620$0100a8c0@knight> From: "Justin Clift" To: , , Subject: *very* important addition to the installation instructions Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 19:23:50 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hiyas, I've had a significant amount of trouble installing FreeBSD onto an old 486 system I'm had hanging around for ages. Finally though, I solved the problem, and found out what caused it. I think this problem is common enough to warrant inserting this additional one-sentence entry into the installation instructions... "If you have to boot with '-c' on a first time install, DO NOT remove the Syscon Console Driver even if it displays as a conflict. This will leave you with a blank screen and no installation." I think that sums it up, when doing a first time install with hardware set to IRQ's etc which are different than expected, the installation instructions advise to do a boot -c. This then says to get rid of all the 'conflicts' and press Q after that. I did. No display... system hang. :-( It's only NON-OBVIOUS because the format of the Visual configuration editor makes everything look like it's a piece of hardware.... the Syscon Console Driver does and doesn't fall under this category, and when it's listed next to the mouse options looks like a weird abstract bit of hardware I don't have installed. I hope you guys do actually insert this statement into the installation docs. :-) Regards and best wishes, + Justin Clift Digital Distribution www.digitaldistribution.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message