From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 16 23:04:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA09123 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 23:04:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.sportsextra.com (shell.sportsextra.com [208.1.220.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA09118 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 23:04:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowdog (snowdog.sportsextra.com [208.1.220.128]) by shell.sportsextra.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA13005; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 23:03:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 23:03:26 -0700 Message-ID: <01BCAA98.9A93CE20.mykes@sportsextra.com> From: Mike Schwartz To: "'Greg Lehey'" , Andrew Cc: Travis Campbell , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: Strange installation problem Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 23:03:25 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 Encoding: 38 TEXT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As I said in my first e-mail, the kernel WAS running, or at least some parts of it, because the screen blanker worked. I'm no unix kernel hacker, but I would guess that at least a timer interrupt handler wasn't corrupted. THe problem was with the mono graphics card. That was what I had in both machines that was common to both. A change of jumpers fixed the problem, and FreeBSD is happily running. --- Mike Schwartz, Founder Best Internet Communications CEO & Chairman Internet Extra Corporation FREE Sports and Contests at http://www.sportsextra.com -----Original Message----- From: Greg Lehey [SMTP:grog@lemis.com] Sent: Saturday, August 16, 1997 10:10 PM To: Andrew Cc: Travis Campbell; Mike Schwartz; questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange installation problem On Sat, Aug 16, 1997 at 12:50:48PM +1000, Andrew wrote: > Did you download the boot.flp in binary mode? If you have a corrupted kernel, you won't get the messages >> boot: >> Booting 0:fd(0,a)kernel @ 0x279000 >> text=0x125000 data=0x0 bss=0xa00 symbols[+0x600+0x4+0x270+0x4+01f4] >> total=0x39f46c entry point=0x279000 >> Uncompressing kernel...done To Travis: Are you using the same keyboard on both machines? Greg