Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 12:17:46 +0200 From: "Kukulies, Henning" <Henning.Kukulies@m.dasa.de> To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD 3.4 crashes when probing devices on my DELL PC Message-ID: <A11512FA21D5D111A04800805F85B92404790519@s70a91.otn.lm.dasa.de>
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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
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