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From: "Rashid Karimov." <rashid@haven.ios.com>
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Subject: Re: boot failure on April snapshot
To: ejon@ll.mit.edu (Eric `two cats' Jones)
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 18:43:31 -0400 (EDT)
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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