From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 12 10:46:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from schooner.routergeeks.net (schooner.routergeeks.net [204.75.228.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC9F237B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:46:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kozowski@routergeeks.net) Received: (from kozowski@localhost) by schooner.routergeeks.net (8.9.1a/routergeeks.net) id KAA04315; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:46:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:46:39 -0700 From: Eric Kozowski To: John Murphy Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install problem Message-ID: <20010712104639.D3846@schooner.routergeeks.net> References: <20010711125918.A26313@schooner.routergeeks.net> <20010711225958.C29759@schooner.routergeeks.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.2i In-Reply-To: ; from jfm@blueyonder.co.uk on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:21:33PM +0100 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 On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 04:21:33PM +0100, John Murphy wrote: > Eric Kozowski wrote: > > >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.) > >> > >> now, when i rebooted after the install, the system gets to the > >> boot manager (F1 for FreeBSD) and locks up there. any key > >> pressed generates a beep. > >> > >> this system had freebsd 3 on it and worked just fine. i stripped > >> the system down to just a video card, pci fast ether and pci scsi > >> card. i've disable most onboard stuff in the bios, except the > >> floppy and one serial port. > >> > >> 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. > > Did you remember to set the slice with the boot partition bootable? yep, did that. still no go. as soon as the bootloader comes up the system beeps once and pretty much locks up. any key press generates a beep. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message