Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:05:49 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Walter <warume@shaw.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5 and 5.2.1 Message-ID: <20050302220549.GA92783@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <000001c51f4e$64971420$6500a8c0@WINDOWS> References: <000001c51f4e$64971420$6500a8c0@WINDOWS>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:36:39AM -0700, Walter wrote: > I have both of the above mentioned versions. For some reason or other, > neither one will get past the part of the installation where they probe > for hardware. I've let both versions get after it for over 2 hours, and > they're still probing for hardware. Any suggestions as to what I should > be doing to not have this happen? The machine I'm trying this on has an > AMD Duron CPU running at just over 1 Gig. > > Any info would be appreciated. Thanks. Try a later version of FreeBSD (you just need to download the boot floppy and see if it boots); both 4.5 and 5.2.1 are very old now, and are missing many important bug fixes. Look for a BIOS update. It's common for older systems (and newer) to have buggy BIOSes. Reset your BIOS to default settings. Non-default settings can often prevent the computer from working. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCJji9Wry0BWjoQKURAgrqAJ94S8IErsw+/4m89MuNXMrTSDKiCwCeLgRN S9hyXrbJ03c/IDXVAzNwNnE= =t/bb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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