From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 3 14:34:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20101 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:34:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from star.cirrus.com (star.cirrus.com [141.131.7.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20078 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:34:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rec@corp.cirrus.com) Received: from ss563.corp.cirrus.com (ss563.corp.cirrus.com [141.131.8.55]) by star.cirrus.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA04053; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:32:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from fireipx.corp.cirrus.com (fireipx1.corp.cirrus.com [141.131.4.111]) by ss563.corp.cirrus.com with SMTP id OAA13374 (8.7.5/IDA-1.6); Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:32:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ss533.corp.cirrus.com by fireipx.corp.cirrus.com (4.1-Corp/2.00) id AA20088; Fri, 3 Apr 98 14:32:24 PST Received: by ss533.corp.cirrus.com (SMI-8.6/Corp-2.20) id OAA00562; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:32:21 -0800 Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:32:21 -0800 From: rec@corp.cirrus.com (Bob Cousins) Message-Id: <199804032232.OAA00562@ss533.corp.cirrus.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help! Can't make install work Cc: rec@rcousins.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Md5: lTSPFFDHGjS6GN1Cy2L2aQ== Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello: I've installed FreeBSD on two other systems successfully, but am stymied on the latest. I created a boot floppy using boot.flp and fdimage.exe copied down today (4/3/98) from Ftp.FreeBSD.org. The system (which is brand new), boots the floppy just fine and I select visual mode for configuration. The system configuration is simple: 200 MHZ Pentium w/ MMX 512 K second level cache 64 megs of RAM 3Com PCI LAN controller ("3Com Fast ETherlink XL") 3c90x Hard disk: WDC AC24300L (4312 mb) (primary ide master) CD ROM: Toshiba (primary IDE slave) ZIP Drive: secondary IDE Master Matrox video card serial ports, modem, serial mouse, floppy, etc. Selecting active drivers I kill all storage except floppy. Same with Netowrk devices and parallel printers. Same with microsoft and ps/2 mouse selections. PCI section shows PCI drivers for my LAN and disk controllers. WHen I'm done, I select "q" to quit and "y" to save. Immediatley I get a partial screen of text showing the probes. There are 9 lines of output in all. They are (hand typed, sorry if there are any typos): avail memory = 61792256 (60344K bytes) Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0 rev 1 on pci0:0:0 chip1 rev 1 on pci0:7:0 chip2 rev 1 on pci0:7:1 chip3 rev 1 int d irq 11 on pci0:7:2 chip4 rev 1 on pci0:7:3 vga0 rev 0 int a irq 9 on pci0:13:0 vx0 <3COM 3C905 Faster Therlink XL PCI> rev 0 int a irq 10 on pci0:15:0 Then the system hangs. It won't respond to the keyboard (numlock doesn't work, space bar doesn't work, cntl-alt-delete doesn't work). I've left it this way for 1+ hour without any changes. I've also tried various configuration settings including bypassing configuration totally. I get the same answers. When I boot with -cv I get some more lines of output during the probes but nothing which seems relevant. I must be doing something wrong, but I'm too close to the problem. COuld someone please give me a hint as to what I'm doing wrong? BTW: Hardware boots windows/95 just fine and I haven't been able to overwrite it yet! I'd appreciate some help so that I can remove one more microsoft boot sector virus from the world. THanx Bob Cousins rec@RCousins.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message