From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 12 14:27:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtprelay2.adelphia.net (smtprelay2.adelphia.net [64.8.25.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1036837B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:27:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scraemondaemon.my.domain ([24.49.96.3]) by smtprelay2.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GGDQ9V03.GEK; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:27:31 -0400 Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scraemondaemon.my.domain (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6CLPTT40503; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:25:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:25:29 -0400 From: User & Ian Patrick Thomas To: Eric Kozowski Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install problem Message-ID: <20010712172529.E39967@localhost> References: <20010711125918.A26313@schooner.routergeeks.net> <20010711225958.C29759@schooner.routergeeks.net> <20010712104639.D3846@schooner.routergeeks.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010712104639.D3846@schooner.routergeeks.net>; from eric@routergeeks.net on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:46:39AM -0700 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 Was your 3.x install dangerously dedicated? This is the last recourse sometimes. Ian As it was put forth by Eric Kozowski on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:46:39AM -0700... > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message