From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 16 10:12:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02792 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:12:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02623 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:12:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA10435; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:12:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:12:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Gary Lahr cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation problem In-Reply-To: <01bd37d1$9c4c98c0$7b547e8b@lahrg.atlanta.ds.adp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Gary Lahr wrote: > Motherboard: Unknown > CPU: CyrixDX4 100 > Memory: 16 MB > Video: Built into mother board. > > When I try to boot from a floppy made with the view command the system > starts to boot and about halfway through the display goes black and it won't > display anything. The system is using AMI BIOS and I see an ATI chip on the > motherboard. I don't have a manual on the motherboard otherwise I would try > to disable the onboard video. Any suggestions? What version of FreeBSD are you trying to install? There is an obscure bug with the Mach32 and some Mach64 parts and the base ports for COM3/4. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message