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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Subject: Re: bin/2594: floppy install hangs after or on npx driver; cannot proceed w/ sysinstall
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2594; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: twells@ucsd.edu
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/2594: floppy install hangs after or on npx driver; cannot proceed w/ sysinstall
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 15:37:39 +0100

 As twells@ucsd.edu wrote:
 
 > Installation from floppy cannot proceed due to system hang on or after
 > the npx driver.  Installs all other drivers, and have tried disabling
 > all devices not present from boot kernel.
 
 That's either on the attempt to mount the root filesystem, or at
 system startup.
 
 Can you already switch to VTY2 (Alt-F2), and see sysinstall messages
 there?
 
 There used to be a BIOS stack corruption problem in FreeBSD 2.1.5, can
 you try a more recent boot floppy (2.2-BETA) to see if the problem has
 been fixed there?
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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