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From: Byron Schlemmer <byron.schlemmer@realtime.co.uk>
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Subject: 4.4 Installing Woes
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Hi all,

I've just installed FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE onto a Dual PIII-450 with 512MB
of RAM. It has two IBM 13GB IDE disks. I boot from the CD fine and
proceed through the install without any problems. On reboot though I
recieve a continous powercycle ie. The machine boots, gets to a point in
the FreeBSD boot process and summarily reboots itself again. I've
maanged to pause this process and this is what I see :

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
(murray@builder.FreeBSD.org, Tue Sep 18 10:05:43 PDT 2001)
Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffffnot found by porbers, defaulting to disk0:
Console: Internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive A: is disk 4
BIOS drive C: is disk 5
BIOS 639kB/523200kB available memory

Any ideas? Faulty hardware. Odd though that the same machine was booting
4.3-STABLE fine.

-byron


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