From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 17 17: 3: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from i.caniserv.com (i.caniserv.com [139.142.95.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CDA4514C2F for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:02:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjukema@silk.net) Received: (qmail 1591 invoked from network); 18 Jun 1999 00:06:30 -0000 Received: from 24.65.182.27.bc.wave.home.com (HELO spammer) (24.65.182.27) by 139.142.95.148 with SMTP; 18 Jun 1999 00:06:30 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990617170242.007c8d70@silk.net> X-Sender: gjukema@silk.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:02:42 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: gjukema@silk.net Subject: 3.1 CD installation hangs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I've been attempting an installation from the 3.1 CD (which I have successfully accomplished a number of times), but am failing on this one box. Its a DataTrain P120 with the Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG, also, Plug and Play BIOS extension v1.0A. The machine has 8MB Ram. I've used the same ATAPI CD-ROM drive on all other installations without a problem. On this machine, FreeBSD boots fine from the CD. Heres where the error occurs.... After partitioning the drive, the installation begins. Where it hangs is just as its copying bin files to the drive. Sometimes none of the files are written, and the most I've seen is 3. (as far as bin/cat I believe). When installing with DEBUG mode switched on, in VT2 I see it writing various a few files, /etc/fstab, does some more stuff, no error messages appear. Like I say, once it starts to read the bin files, it hangs. CTRL-C doesn't respond either. I do have the ability to jump from VT1, 2, and 4. I've physically removed the network card from the machine, and in visual mode, all the scsi references, network card references and unnecessary conflics are removed. The probing is flawless. Anyone have an idea. I've been searching the archive for a couple of days now, tried a few ideas that appeared similar, without any luck. Thanks for any response, Geoff Jukema To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message