From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 23 1:26: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38447156EE for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:26:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id JAA18618 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 09:21:29 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id KAA27726 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:19:11 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA25672 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:07:45 +0200 (MEST) Received: from alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id KAA14636; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:15:49 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <379825F6.AC698BCC@alcatel.fr> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:21:10 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: ALCATEL CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions Subject: Hung install on a Compaq machine Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I've found once more what Compaq stands for (Compatibility and Quality). I'm trying to install 3.2-Release on a brand new Compaq machine (Desqpro EB/SP series, with a P-III/450 and 4 3C900 NICs). When booting from the CDROM, the install program stays hung in the "probing devices" phase. The debug console prints that all needed devices (xl0 to xl3, the CD-ROM drive, the floppy, both serial ports, and two DOS slices on the hard disk (wd0s1 and wd0s2 - as a matter of fact, there are four FAT partitions on the disk : 3 times 2 Gigs and a partition to store specific diagnostic and BIOS tools) I'll make another attempt with just downloaded -Stable boot floppies (0721 snapshot). In the meantime, if anybody has a clue ... TfH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message