From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 13 10:47:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA06808 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 10:47:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tamara.superdeluxe.com (qmailr@tamara.superdeluxe.com [209.60.53.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA06630 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 10:47:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@vagabondage.com) Received: (qmail 6500 invoked from network); 13 Feb 1998 18:52:44 -0000 Received: from athene.superdeluxe.com (HELO ?209.60.53.26?) (209.60.53.26) by tamara.superdeluxe.com with SMTP; 13 Feb 1998 18:52:44 -0000 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <34E42C1D.1B24@vagabondage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Context: http://www.vagabondage.com X-PGPkey: http://www.vagabondage.com/pgp Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:04:24 -0800 To: Brian Beattie From: Vagabond Jim Subject: Re: installation failure: Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The motherboard uses the Intel 430TX chipset. - J. >You do not say what motherboard you have. I recently bought a new >motherboard and Cyrix 6x86 PR200MX. The first motherboard userd the Opti >chipset and would not work at all and while I do not remember the exact >failure mode it sounds like you may be seeing the same thing. I took the >mother board back and got one that used the Via chipset and that works >great. Sometime on 2/13/98, Brian Beattie was saying: >On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Vagabond Jim wrote: > >> I have unsuccessfully tried to get FreeBSD 2.2.5 RELEASE up and running >> on my machine. I've searched the mailing list archives and while I've >> discovered many people have had similar problems, none of the solutions >> listed there have worked for me. if anyone has any idea where I should >> go from where I am I would be exceptionally grateful. >> >> >> THE HARDWARE >> ----------------------------------------- >> Cyrix 6x86 PR200 >> Maxtor 84320D3 4.3 gig IDE drive >> Takaya ATAPI IDE CD-ROM >> Award Modular BIOS version 4.51PR BODY: Vagabond Jim - jim@vagabondage.com MIND: http://www.superdeluxe.com SOUL: http://www.vagabondage.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message