From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 11 18:57:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA00561 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 18:57:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA00553 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 1995 18:56:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA20461; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 13:34:43 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512121334.NAA20461@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: STILL can't boot! To: amb@j51.com Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 13:34:43 +0000 () Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199512120123.BAA02280@j51.com> from "amb@j51.com" at Dec 11, 95 08:23:55 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk amb@j51.com stands accused of saying: > > I STILL can't boot my system. I've created the boot.flp for 2.1 AND 2.0.5 > and neither will boot.. my system will just hangs with NO output whatsoever. > Even the three-finger salut doesnt work. > > I can boot DOS on the floppy drive > so the floppy drive isnt the problem. > > Both the 2.1 and 2.0.5 boot disks I made boot another computer I tried them > on so the boot disks arent the problem. > > After that I pulled ALL nonessential cards from my system right down to the > serial port card, with NO change. the system still hangs with NO output. I'd give up on this machine; there is obviously something _fundamentally_ broken with it, if the boot code can't even get to the point where it outputs the banner. > My system consists of: Which chipset? You may want to try pulling the DTC SCSI controller - it's not supported anyway, so unless you have an IDE controller, it's time to start looking at a new machine. (I don't know whether it counted as "essential" above) > SCSI host adapter: DTC 3270VL That's a really unfortunate model number 8) > AMB -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[