From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 19 14:58:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dot.dreamhost.com (dot.dreamhost.com [216.240.131.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A41C637B408 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:58:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maden.maden.org (adsl-63-206-117-160.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.117.160]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by dot.dreamhost.com (8.12.0.Beta7/8.12.0.Beta7/Debian 8.12.0.Beta7-1) with ESMTP id f9JLwpqQ003919 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:58:52 -0700 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011019145551.00a92090@mail.maden.org> X-Sender: maden@mail.maden.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:56:48 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Christopher R. Maden" Subject: Re: Install floppy kernel hangs on bootup at PLIP0 In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Payback time! At 14:40 19-10-2001, Michelle Brownsworth wrote: >The subject line says it all. If I can get to the install menu I intend >to upgrade from 4.3-RELEASE to 4.4-RELEASE. Oddly, there was no such >problem using 4.3 install floppies. I've searched through the archives >and found people with a similar problem, but found no definitive answer. I don't know if you're hitting the exact same problem I had a couple of weeks ago, but the solution should be the same. You can boot from the 4.3 floppies and change the release to 4.4-RELEASE in the options, then install 4.4 with no problem. -Chris -- Christopher R. Maden, Principal Consultant, HMM Consulting Int'l, Inc. DTDs/schemas - conversion - ebooks - publishing - Web - B2B - training PGP Fingerprint: BBA6 4085 DED0 E176 D6D4 5DFC AC52 F825 AFEC 58DA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message