From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 9 13:19:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.acadiau.ca (relay.acadiau.ca [131.162.2.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17E8737B405 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 13:19:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew.hankinson@acadiau.ca) Received: from exch.acadiau.ca (exch.acadiau.ca [131.162.200.69]) by relay.acadiau.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA18980 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:19:16 -0300 (ADT) Received: by exch.acadiau.ca with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:19:15 -0300 Message-ID: From: Andrew Hankinson To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: boot problems Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 17:19:15 -0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C12110.8F5D6320" 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 This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C12110.8F5D6320 Content-Type: text/plain Hi all, I'm a first time poster, and also new to FreeBSD. I just installed FreeBSD 4.3 on my IBM Thinkpad, 500 Celeron w/ 128 MB RAM, 6 GB HD. The FreeBSD partition is approx 1 GB, and I have a 5 GB W2K partition. Anyway, the install went fine, but when I rebooted, it would get past the BIOS, and then the screen would flicker, and it would reboot again. Having a FreeBSD boot floppy will not boot it (it seems to ignore the disk, even though I'm pretty sure it checks the floppy drive first when booting.) Has anyone run in to anything similar, and is there a workaround? For some reason it will not even let me into change my BIOS settings. Am I royally screwed? Thanks. Andrew Hankinson ------_=_NextPart_001_01C12110.8F5D6320 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable boot problems

Hi all,

I'm a first time poster, and also new = to FreeBSD.  I just installed FreeBSD 4.3 on my IBM Thinkpad, 500 = Celeron w/ 128 MB RAM, 6 GB HD.  The FreeBSD partition is approx 1 = GB, and I have a 5 GB W2K partition.  Anyway, the install went = fine, but when I rebooted, it would get past the BIOS, and then the = screen would flicker, and it would reboot again.  Having a FreeBSD = boot floppy will not boot it (it seems to ignore the disk, even though = I'm pretty sure it checks the floppy drive first when booting.)  = Has anyone run in to anything similar, and is there a workaround?  = For some reason it will not even let me into change my BIOS = settings.  Am I royally screwed?  Thanks.

Andrew Hankinson

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