Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:40:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Ivan Samuelson <bolski@netexp.net> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 3.1 on HP Vectra VL 6 Series 7 DT Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9904280836570.22026-100000@phobos.samuelson.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9904271149390.18565-100000@phobos.samuelson.com>
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Well, I brought in another drive that I scavanged from my old hardware pile at home and put it into the Vectra VL. No dice. Apparently, it's a BIOS or disk controller problem with the Vectra VL 6 Series 7 DT computers or else, I have a faulty PC. I guess I'm out of luc and will have to purchase a CDROM that allows me to boot off of because I have no other option at this time unless someone else has a solution. The BIOS is a Phoenix 6.0.0 BIOS, so I'm not sure if that's part of the problem or not. I'm thinking of reflashing the BIOS with a newer version. I hope this problem gets fixed in the next release if it IS a FreeBSD problem. On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Ivan Samuelson wrote: > > 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 * > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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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