From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 17 12:19:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24669 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:19:27 -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 MAA24590 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:19:19 -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 MAA01123; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:16:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:16:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Sue Blake cc: Jason Lewicki , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation In-Reply-To: <19980317051849.27442@welearn.com.au> 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 Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > > > Got any other hints? I'm having the same problem as Jason, using a 386 which > > > used to run FreeBSD (same version, 2.2.2) but has since had its SCSI > > > controller and FreeBSD disk and second I/O card removed, leaving the DOS > > > IDE. No other hardware has been changed, and I've tried disabling everything > > > nonessential in UserConfig (eventually all of Network and Communications) in > > > case there was unseen problems. No change. The same installation diskette > > > has been used successfully on another machine. > > > > Hit ALT-F2 and report what you see; it may indicate what device it's > > having trouble looking for. > > DEBUG: ioctl(3, TIOCCONS, NULL) = 0 (success) Looking at this on my laptop, right after this is the network device probe, then the disk probes (wdc). If you removed everything from netowrk and communications, then the ide controller is sticking. What's on your IDE and SCSI controllers? Are you sure you set up the SCSI controller correctly? 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