Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 14:17:12 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: Steve Reames <reames@diskdrive.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall crash on install Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10011241408010.5750-100000@frogger.gpcc.itd.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20001124103206.00a30100@relay.bsdi.com>
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I've never seen anything like that, but try booting in verbose mode to see if that tells you anything. Any error messages could be helpful to those in the know. When you see the boot loader press any key for a prompt, do that and type boot -v. That may give you some detail as to why. Otherwise try to get new floppies and create the bootdisks again. Errors on the disk surface can cause some crazy booting problems, since the bootdisks use every sector on the disk. I assume the problem is repeatable? If it wigs out at different spots in the boot process then you would of course be led to suspect hardware flakiness. Even if not, try different memory or a different hard drive or floppy drive etc. Play with the hardware, lots of different combinations if you can. It may surprise you. Tim On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Steve Reames wrote: > Greetings all, > I'm installing FreeBSD 4.1 on a 120 MHz Pentium. I'm following the > instructions in the Lehey book. Both floppies load OK, system get to point > where I get about two screens of "ppd0: blah blah blah, fd0: blah blah > blah". When sysinstall programs starts, I see the color screen for about > 0.1 seconds. The screen goes blank for 5 seconds and restarts again with > the click-click-click of the memory test (cold boot). > All I can figure is a jump to the cold boot vector, or an unexpected > non-maskable interrupt. Has anyone seen this problem? I don't need an exact > solution, but if someone could send me in the right direction I would > appreciate it. (Note: I'm well versed with hardware and Windows, a novice > with FreeBSD.) > > Thanks, > Steve Reames > reames@diskdrive.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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