Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 18:43:31 -0400 (EDT) From: "Rashid Karimov." <rashid@haven.ios.com> To: ejon@ll.mit.edu (Eric `two cats' Jones) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: boot failure on April snapshot Message-ID: <199504262243.SAA02740@haven.ios.com> In-Reply-To: <9504261313.AA12794@LL.MIT.EDU> from "Eric `two cats' Jones" at Apr 26, 95 01:13:28 pm
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Hi there, > > Greetings Gentlepersons, > > I'm having a fairly odd problem trying to install the April SNAP > of FreeBSD-2.0. The installation procedure went basically flawlessly > through the disk partitioning and labeling and loading the cpio disk. > Then, when I tried to reboot using the just-installed kernel, is when > my trouble manifests itself. > The boot manager works fine, allowing me to choose my FreeBSD > slice. Then the loading mechanism goes to work without complaint. > Apparently the boot program has changed since 2.0 because it prints > out a boatload of information about symbol table size which is #ifdef'ed > out of my 2.0-R source. I'm not sure if it then prints out the total size, > but it appears to stop about there, oddly, displaying the first segment of a > rotating bar. If I wait long enough (10-20 sec?) the bar will rotate > a while (the disk seeks at this point), then freeze again. This repeats > for as long as I have the patience to watch. I had the _same problem a few days ago with Bt946C PCI/SCSI on P90. Still be unsolved mistery Rashid
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