From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 23 22:14:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0291E37B407 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:14:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f7O5EMb60497; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:14:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Raymond Law" , Subject: RE: Install Release 4.3 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 22:14:22 -0700 Message-ID: <003301c12c5b$a2704f80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> 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 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <4.3.0.20010823125730.03dad870@127.0.0.1> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal 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 Try clearing the disk and putting a 2-4 MB DOS partition on the disk then installing FreeBSD after it. Some of those systems had very agressive BIOS's that would only allow annointed OS's to write to the boot sectors, as a kind of defence against people leaving floppies infected with viruses in the floppy drive. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Raymond Law >Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:02 AM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Install Release 4.3 > > >I recently grabbed an old packard bell and tried to install 4.3 on >it. Everything went well until after the "last chance" prompt. After >writing the partion info to the drive, it says: "without my init...panic >going nowhere...syncing disk" in white text in black background overlapping >with the Sysinstall. And then it reboots. Anyone has any idea? > >Thanks. >Ray, > > >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