From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 17 3:19:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ccs.muc.debis.de (relay.ccs.muc.debis.de [53.140.125.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B75D37B57E for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 03:19:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Henning.Kukulies@m.dasa.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by relay.ccs.muc.debis.de (8.9.3/8.6.9) id MAA12587 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:18:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from unknown(53.146.175.8) by relay.ccs.muc.debis.de via smap (V2.1+anti-relay+anti-spam) id xma012492; Mon, 17 Apr 00 12:18:30 +0200 Received: by motn1.otn.lm.dasa.de with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:19:10 +0200 Message-ID: From: "Kukulies, Henning" To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: FreeBSD 3.4 crashes when probing devices on my DELL PC Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:17:46 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I have a DELL Dimension L550 PC (i810 chipset, Ethernet and Creative Labs SB on board) with Windows98 on it and want to install FreeBSD on another partition. I already managed to slice the Windows98 partition with fdisk - so it should be ok. I tried both the AutoBootCDROM and the installation disc thing. Everytime the devices are probed and the screen turns blue, with the message "Probing devices (this can take a while)" it does nothing any more. The HD LED flashes from time to time but it's just doing nothing and after 8 hours of watching the blue screen I gave up, tried again, a dozen times, without success. I had 13 conflicts though, but removed some hw in the kernel settings before the devices are probed, so I didn't have any conflicts but the result was the same again. What can I do to solve that problem? Could it be a problem, that we already have a LINUX on that partition? We didn't install a boot-manager or something, it's set to be start from 3.25"disk. I want to remove the LINUX because we are switching our development to FreeBSD, which I hope is more reliable. Thank you very much in advance for a prompt reply kind regards Henning Kukulies -- Dipl.-Ing. Henning Kukulies Euro Telematik GmbH Tel.: 089 607 22483 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message