Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:31:22 -0500 From: Vinny <vinny-mail-01+f.questions20081120@palaceofretention.ca> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Suggestions for PII 400 boot failure Message-ID: <4926015A.3010803@palaceofretention.ca>
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Hi, A friend of mine is trying out FreeBSD and ran into a booting problem. Here is his message: "Well, that's discouraging. I have put together an old PII 400 with three 20GB drives and a CDROM that I'd like to run BSD on. Half a GB of RAM I figured would be respectable. Downloaded the ISO files, burned CDs of them and when I try to run them it starts to boot and then freezes tighter than a muskrat's arse. Three lines coming on the screen and it ends with "Starting the_" and just hangs. I've got a PIII 1000 here that I use as a file server and the boot disks run fine on that. Just won't boot off the PII 400. Weird. Really, really weird. I tried five different CDROMs in case it was the actual drive but same thing. I tried using version 6.3 instead of release 7.0 and same thing. That system doesn't like BSD/Linux whatever. I use GParted as a partition manager all the time which is bootable and same thing on that machine. It just don't like booting to that OS." Any suggestions? Thanks Vinny
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