From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 12 7:31:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shark.flips.net (shark.flips.net [208.214.176.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B6B837B405 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 07:31:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@sfcei.com) Received: from sf_pdc.schaefer-fagan (host-64-183-103-106.covadbiz.com [64.183.103.106]) by shark.flips.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-60222U2500L250S0V35) with ESMTP id net; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:54:05 -0400 Received: by sf_pdc with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id <313MNSXA>; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:21:13 -0400 Message-ID: From: bob@sfcei.com To: eric@routergeeks.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: install problem Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:21:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Total shot in the dark here, but I had this once, and it turned out to be a flaky hard drive and/or a bad BIOS setting for the hard drive geometry. Good luck Bob On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:59:19PM -0700, Eric Kozowski wrote: > > i'm having problems doing my second freebsd install of the week. > > i got 4.3 installed without any problems (i just did a minimal > install, set the root password, etc.) > [snip] > > i don't appear to have an irq conflict (though i could be wrong). > > anyone have any ideas? anyone? i tried reloading again with no luck. tried all kinds of different bios settings, too. it still hangs at the boot manager. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message