From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 7 22: 2:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB3D37B503 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 22:02:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA03848; Sat, 07 Oct 2000 22:02:17 -0700 Message-ID: <39DFFFD8.999C2817@urx.com> Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 22:02:16 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Cummings Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't boot to install 4.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Cummings wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > > Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > Mike Cummings wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD over my old Linux partition. I have a 20G > > > > IDE drive with a 10G partition for windows and 10G allotted to Linux (soon > > > > to be FreeBSD). It's an Athlon 700 w/128M RAM, and when I try to boot, > > > > with floppy or CD-ROM, I get the following right after booting starts: > > > > > > > > /boot.config: -P > > > > Keyboard: yes > > > > / > > > > int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030002 eip=0000567f > > > > eax=00000208 ebx=00000000 ecx=c0010010 edp=00000100 > > > > esi=0000000b edi=00000005 ebp=000003f4 esp=000003c4 > > > > es=f000 ds=ec00 es=1000 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9e35 > > > > es:eip = 0f 32 66 0d 00 00 08 00-0f 30 c3 66 b9 10 00 01 > > > > ss:eip = f4 56 03 01 00 00 00 01-00 00 3d 1d 00 ec 6a 1d > > > > System Halted > > > > > > > > This is very unsatisfying. Any ideas on what I could try next? I couldn't > > > > find anything about this problem on the net. > > > > This is a different problem. You would hit the one I mentioned after > > you install it. > > Right, that's what I thought. I've run into the 1024 cylinder problem > before with Linux, and solved it by booting from a floppy. This is > completely mystifying to me. It just dies before I can boot the CD or > floppy. I can't find a lot of scope for troubleshooting it. I guess it > could be a BIOS thing, but I don't know that much about hardware. If you go back in the archives, you should see people with Athlon's that aren't booting to do an install. Also look in the archives for freebsd-hackers. Some I can remember were as simple as turning off the boot virus checking in the bios. Kent > > -Mike Cummings > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message