Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 13:24:35 -0800 From: "Allen Williams" <Allen.Williams@PrimeNet.Com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: my screwey setup Message-ID: <199507142030.NAA28667@mailhost.primenet.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi! I have a question. I think this IS covered in a faq somewhere, but for the life of me I can't find it. I have a very simple system I want to run freebsd on to play with, but its not cooperating. :( it's a 386-20 with 1mb of ram above the base 640k, cga, a standard mfm controller that runs two drives (one 80mb and one 40mb), and a 1.44 floppy. when i tired to run 1.1, it basically worked except that it saw my drive as having 1 cyl 1 head 17 sectors and never asked me anything about the geometry or the disklabel. I couldn't find anything anywhere that covered THAT problem, so I decided to try a 2.0.5 snapshot. on this one, it starts booting and sez TEXT=0x100000 (im not sue thats the address) and then does its | / - \ | i'm-busy thing. :) after it does that, it drops about a line and a half more text onto the screen. I dont know what it says, because it immediately reboots at that point. any information you can give me would be appreciated. I saw lots of stuff in the docs about systems with cool, wierd stuff that makes it hard to setup and run bsd.. but this is the least imaginative system i can think of. i couldnt find much help in the docs about systems that suck so bad it makes it hard to setup! :) thanks in advance.. -allen
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199507142030.NAA28667>