Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 09:19:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Heredity Choice <stork@QNET.COM> To: Drew Redman <drew_redman@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Install Help Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10010010906190.25531-100000@cello.qnet.com> In-Reply-To: <F11ogkJXrRjbDt3HvoF00009f86@hotmail.com>
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Your hardware description sounds fine, but there may be something about your SCSI that FreeBSD does not like. See if you get additional information by hitting Alt-F2. When it hangs, the last line is the clue to the problem. Assuming your harddrive is properly terminated and on ID 0, you should check the drive for bad clusters. Use Scandisk if you are running M$. I find that DOS is much more tolerant of bad clusters than is FreeBSD. I have a new SCSI drive (which will be going back to IBM this week) which has a thousand bad clusters at the beginning. FreeBSD will not touch it but DOS installs quite cheerfully. Paul Smith stork@qnet.com On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Drew Redman wrote: > Hey All, > I'm new to both FreeBSD and this list, so please go easy... > > Recently, I downloaded the FreeBSD 4.1 ISO. After burning it, I attempted to > install it by setting up the bios on my box to boot from the cdrom. Then I > put the cd in and booted into the FreeBSD setup with the cd. When the > computer first boots from the cd, it begins loading the kernel, then gives a > menu screen asking if I want to configure the kernel or continue without > configuring. Regardless of which option I choose, the problem still exists. > Anyway, so I choose an option and the kernel continues to load. Then, I get > a message saying "Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle". Well, 15 > seconds comes and goes and nothing happens. I've waited up to 30 minutes for > it to proceed and it never does.. I have no idea what to try next. Any tips > anyone out there could give me would be a huge help. > Thank You, > drew > > BTW- Yes the box is fast enough to support FreeBSD, its a PPro 200, 64 megs > of RAM, and a 4 gig drive.. and I'm using a Adaptec 2940A SCSI adapter... > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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