From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 5 9:52:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.cdrom.com (pike.cdrom.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DC46151C5 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:52:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from support@cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (support@localhost) by pike.cdrom.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA18964 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:53:28 -0800 (PST) X-Received: from linux.akadine.com (IDENT:root@linux.akadine.com [208.217.232.5]) by pike.cdrom.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA18269 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:28:26 -0800 (PST) X-Received: from bestweb.net (babel.akadine.com [208.217.232.250]) by linux.akadine.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA26720 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:31:43 -0500 Message-ID: <36E011D0.2405099F@bestweb.net> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 12:18:08 -0500 From: David Wagenheim Reply-To: davidw@bestweb.net, david@akadine.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: support@cdrom.com Subject: Error Messages when TRYING to install FreeBSD 3.1 Release Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, When I tried to install 3.1 I ran in to some problems. They are as follows. When trying to boot from the cd, I got the following message: 0x1 lba=0xffffc1a0 invalid format At that point, I get the boot prompt and pressing enter gives me back the boot prompt with a 'no kernel' message. I don't have lba mode turned on in the bios and any other 'enhanced' modes are also off. When using the boot and mfs floppies, I can use the visual mode for selecting hardware, I get prompted for the mfs floppy, and the kernel detects all of my hardware and then I get the following messages RTC BIOS diagnostic error ff changing root device to fd0c rootfs is 2880KB compiled in MFS At that point, the computer freezes and get this, pushing the power button on the computer won't turn it off!!!!! The computer is an Acer with I think a 'soft power' button that tries to be more clever than a standard switch that cuts the power when pushed. Also, I have tested the bios for y2k capability using the YMARK 2000 test program and everything checked out ok. I have installed FreeBSD 2.2.2, 2.2.5, 2.2.8 many times without any difficulty but I am stumped by this one. Thanx in advance David Wagenheim Customer # 496155 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message