From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 10 17:47:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA02272 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 17:47:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from magnus.muc.de (magnus.muc.de [194.94.228.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA02258 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 17:47:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3021 invoked by uid 100); 11 Feb 1997 01:47:13 -0000 Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 02:47:07 +0100 (MET) From: Armin Gruner To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Unable to boot 2.6.1 from 386 system Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello *, I am trying to set up a 386 box being my leased line gateway, as well as FAX and printer server. The configuration is: - a 386 board with AMI Bios MK-III - an IDE/floppy controller - an ET4000 graphic adapter (TSENG LABS VGA BIOS MODEL: 8925 06/13/90) The POST memory test shows: 7808 KB, 64 KB Cache The BIOS reports after POST: Processor: 80386 Numeric coprocessor: present Floppy A: 3 1/2" Display: EGA or VGA Rom Bios Date: 10/15/90 Base Memory: 640 KB Ext. Memory: 7168 KB Booting the boot.flp shows: Boot: kernel @ 0x27d000 [...] In the visual kernel configuration , I disable everything but: Storage: fdc0, wdc0 Input: sc0 avail memory = 5001216 (4884K Bytes) <- XXX looks strange to me Probing.. sc0 at 0x60 sc0: VGA color fdc0: NEC 765 fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in wdc0 at 0x1f0 wcd0: unit 0 (wd0): wd0: 80 MB (164050 sectors), 965 cyls, 10 heads, 17 s/t, 516 b/s npx0 at 0xf0 Then the boot sequence hangs forever. Any ideas, anybody? :)) TIA Armin -- Armin Gruner Muc.DE e.V. Tel./Fax: 089 / 3243695 Frankfurter Ring 193a mailto:admin@muc.de 80807 Muenchen WWW: http://www.muc.de/