Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:03:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Ivan Samuelson <bolski@netexp.net> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Installing FreeBSD 3.1 on HP Vectra VL 6 Series 7 DT Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9904271149390.18565-100000@phobos.samuelson.com>
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I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.1 onto an HP Vectra VL 6/266 Series 7 DT PC. It's a PII-233 with 32 megs of memory, 4 gig IDE harddrive, a Cirrus Logic 546X video card (AGP), Diamond Monster 3D card, SMC EtherEZ (8416) ethernet card, Aztech 23230 Compatible PnP Audio card (came with machine), Matshita CD-ROM CR-588 (IDE) and a Phoenix BIOS 6.0.0 I can boot the Kernel floppy with no problem. When I insert the MFS root floppy and hit enter, I get the following dump: int=0000000e eir=00000004 efl=00030246 eip=000020da eax=00002001 ebx=00000000 ecx=0000df07 edx=000003f5 esi=0000a6fc edi=0000a6fc ebp=000003da esp=000003d0 cs=ebfa ds=0040 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9db7 cs:eip=8a 64 0a 8a c4 d0 e4 c0-e8 02 02 e0 b0 ff 2a c4 ss:esp=00 f0 fd 20 ca 28 31 25-fc a6 00 00 fe 9d fc a6 System Halted What I've discovered is that if I boot the kern floppy and leav it in and go into the command prompt, I can ls the kern floppy. But, as soon as I remove the kern floppy and place either it or the mfsroot floppy, any other activity to the drive will result in the above dump. I don't have access to another floppy driv since this is a computer at work. I have tried booting this on a different HP machine (Vectra XL) and the mfsroot floppy boots up fine, so I'm not sure if my floppy drive is not letting FreeBSD know that I've switched floppies? Any help on how to circumvent this problem would be appreciated. I don't have access to another floppy drive to put into my machine. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ivan Samuelson * Staff Support Coordinator and * bolski@netexp.net Information Systems Consultant * Metro Information Services * http://www.netexp.net/~bolski http://www.MetroIS.com * -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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