From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 10 21:20:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA13404 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:20:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA13396 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:20:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R3.10/dg-rtp-v02) id AA19068; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 00:20:04 -0500 Received: from ponds by dg-rtp.dg.com.rtp.dg.com; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 00:20 EST Received: from lakes.water.net (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by ponds.water.net (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA06662; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:54:13 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.water.net (8.8.3/8.6.9) id VAA01171; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:58:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 21:58:41 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199702110258.VAA01171@lakes.water.net> To: ponds!Muc.DE!at, ponds!freebsd.org!questions Subject: Re: Unable to boot 2.6.1 from 386 system Content-Type: text 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) > ... > 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. Do you have a 387 coprocessor? If not; that could be the cause of your problem.... In the past; there have been problems in the 387 emulator. If you don't have one; I can recommend the Cyrix and INTEL versions, stay away from anything else [that's assuming you can still find somewhere to buy one.] - Dave R. -