From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 13 23:06:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA07336 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 23:06:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA07322 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 23:06:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA01816; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 23:06:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 23:06:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: John Zollo cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting freeze while loading kernel In-Reply-To: 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 Sun, 13 Sep 1998, John Zollo wrote: > > I sucessfully installed FreeBSD 2.2.7 off a dos partition using a > boot floppy -- so I know the kernel on the boot floppy works fine. After > rebooting, the boot manager displays the "boot:" prompt, and I hit enter. > The kernel starts to load, and the first slash starts to twirl. After > twirling for a few seconds it freezes -- and that's it. It stops at the > first spinning slash. I tried the debug and verbose options at the boot: > prompt, but it never gets to the point where they would be useful. What > should I do? What brand/model/proccessor do you have? Have you tried wiping clean and reinstalling? It could be a disk error. 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