From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 2 22:05:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCDA816A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:05:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.199.47.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FEB743D3F for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:05:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C466E53498; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:05:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:05:49 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Walter Message-ID: <20050302220549.GA92783@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <000001c51f4e$64971420$6500a8c0@WINDOWS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c51f4e$64971420$6500a8c0@WINDOWS> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5 and 5.2.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:05:51 -0000 --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. > =20 > 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 --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCJji9Wry0BWjoQKURAgrqAJ94S8IErsw+/4m89MuNXMrTSDKiCwCeLgRN S9hyXrbJ03c/IDXVAzNwNnE= =t/bb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --X1bOJ3K7DJ5YkBrT--