From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 23 22:20:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA21704 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 22:20:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jump.azeri.com (jump.azeri.com [208.210.122.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA21677 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 22:20:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mirlok@twin.ab.az) Received: from twin.ab.az ([208.210.122.71]) by jump.azeri.com (8.9.1/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA06641; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:22:29 +0500 (BSD) Received: from localhost by twin.ab.az (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA06625; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:18:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:18:21 -0400 (GMT) From: Tima To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Sputnick@aol.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no boot after UserConfig In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sun, 23 Aug 1998 Sputnick@aol.com wrote: > > > I'm runing 2.2.7 FreeBSD > > > > Installed FreeBSD, everything seemed to be working fine. I entered UserConfig > > to delete conflicting hardware devices. Once I saw 0 conflicts, I saved and > > exited (Q). > > > > For about five minutes the system did nothing, just a white cursor in the > > upper left hand corner of the screen. No disk access, nothing. So, I hit > > RESET. Now my system doesn't boot at all. Any ideas? > > Did you delete sc0 (the system console) by chance? > -- > Jonathan Chen | "In prosperity our friends know us; > | in adversity we know our friends." > | - John Churton Collins I had the same problem after exiting from options menu when installing FreeBSD. It appeared after I tried to install it on primary slave drive. When that disk was secondary master I had no problems here. I'm sure I did'n delete sc0. I suggest you choose "Skip kernel configuration" and continue with installation. Then U can build your own kernel to modify hardware profiles. (That's what I'm trying to do now :-) ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message