From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 07:50:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA17722 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 07:50:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iworks.InterWorks.org (iworks.interworks.org [128.255.18.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA17712; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 07:50:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by iworks.InterWorks.org (1.37.109.8/16.2) id AA24031; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:47:57 -0500 Message-Id: <9607231447.AA24031@iworks.InterWorks.org> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 09:47:57 -0500 From: "Daniel M. Eischen" To: gibbs@freebsd.org, jzbiciak@micro.ti.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to boot standard boot floppy. Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Joe Zbiciak wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE on my machine at home. > I've been unsuccessful getting the standard boot floppy (boot.flp, I > believe) to boot. It dies shortly after several driver messages with > the something along these lines: > > "brkadrint: Illegal host access at 0x0" > > I believe this message is related to my SCSI HD and controller. Here's > my system configuration: > > EISA/VLB 486DX4/100. (Old Gateway EISA/VLB motherboard) > 40MB RAM > Adaptec AHA2740 controller > Seagate ST43400 SCSI drive (ID 0, I believe) > Diamond Stealth 64 (VLB, 2MB DRAM) Boot with the -c option, and disable everything that you do not need for the install. It looks like something is stepping on address space used by the sequencer on the AHA2740... > Do you have any suggestions? This configuration works fine under > Linux. (I certainly hope "Linux" isn't a dirty word around there.) Dirty word? Not really. Folks are welcome here no matter where they come from. > :-) I'm installing FreeBSD with the intention of running some > (hopefully meaningful) benchmarks so I can compare the two above > and beyond the noise in .advocacy groups and the like. Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org