From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 18 15:55:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA14304 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:55:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from horst.bfd.com ([204.160.242.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA14296 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:55:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.2]) by horst.bfd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA10595 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:54:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:57:51 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BOOT.FLP hanging In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > I've got a problem machine I'm trying to get FreeBSD 2.1R installed on. > It's a Pentium, 66Mhz, PCI bus with ALI chipset, Award Modular Bios ver > 4.50G. Basically, even with all controllers and network cards (except > floppy and wd0) disabled, the machine hangs after it reports the following > > npx0 on motherboard > npx0: INT 16 interface > > no disk activity, though if we disable the floppy controller, the floppy > light stays lit. > > Anyone know what the problem is? I'm going to try a few other boot disks > (2.0.5, 2.2snap, whatever else I can find). the 960303 snap does boot on said machine, so it's currently running a very kludgy mix of 2.1R and 2.2 snap. Just in case anyone's curious.