From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 15 11:48:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6446B37B401 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 11:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D355043F3F for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 11:48:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve.nash@iee.org) Received: from steve ([81.103.110.172]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with SMTP id <20030515184839.PCNP11246.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@steve> for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 19:48:39 +0100 From: "Steve" To: Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 19:48:39 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4925.2800 Importance: Normal Subject: 5.0 installation on IBM 300PL X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: steve.nash@iee.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 18:48:42 -0000 I've attempted to install FreeBSD on an IBM 300PL I've downloaded the 5.0 RELEASE i386 iso images and cut CD's. I tried booting from CD. This proceeded as far as: pcib0: slot2 INTD is routed to irq 11 then froze with a block cursor at the beginning of the next line. I built floppies from the 5.0 RELEASE image to boot from. kern booted fine then requested mfsroot mfsroot decompressed and proceeded as far as: pci_cfgintr: 0:2 INTD routed to irq 3 then froze in the same condition. I am now dropping back to a 4.7 CD which doesn't appear to have a problem. I've reached the sysinstall menu and worked through the disk configuration so far. For verification I have booted the 5.0 CD on an IBM Thinkpad A20m. The CD seems OK. So there is something about the particular machine and particular version that don't like each other! FYI Model type 6862-300 Flash EEPROM NVKT58AUK Boot rev NV41A BIOS date 07/19/01 RAM 128M Disk 20G Pentium2 350MHz My activity is for self-education only. I can survive without a solution. Steve Nash steve.nash@iee.org