Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 10:36:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Mathis <mark@earth.mat.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: installation of 2.1.5 problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960723093806.9962A-100000@earth.mat.net>
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Hello all, For a little background, here is how this started. We have been running freebsd 2.0.5 on this machine. basicly that worked fine except for one problem, when external cache was inabled the system would crash in anything from 5 minutes to an hour. When external cache was disabled the machine was rock solid and would run until we brought it down manually. After doing some initail checking on the problem, I learned that this is normaly due to bad memory, motherboard, etc.. I called my vendor and bought another motherboard do that I could swap out each part until I found the guilty party. The new motherboard ended up having the exact same problems as the first one did. At this point, 2.1.5R came out, and in reading the blurb on it I noticed that it had a number of memory fixes in it so I decided to try that and see if it would fix my problem. I downloaded boot.flp and used dd to create an update disk, just as I had done for version 2.0.5 which had worked fine with all the same equipment. When I ran the program the machine booted up, did the normal probing of the system, but as it went to run sysinstall the screen scrolled up clearing the screen and then the cursor sat at the bottom left of the screen and nothing happened from there. I thought the problem might be with the pci svga card so I removed it and put in an isa svga card. that had the exact same results. I then took the disk to an OLD 386 machine that is a workstation here and booted up there to see if it was just a bad disk. It worked like a champ, the menu came up with no problems. I then took the vga card out of the workstation and put it in the new box knowing that it was compatible with the program, I got the same result, scroll up and cursor at the bottom. I even tried an old ttl mono card, which still got the same result. At this point I do not think it is the display card that is causing the problem. I went into the bios setup and disabled everything in site to see if that would help, to no avail. Here is a discription of the equipment involved: Spacewalker HOT-501 pentium PCI Motherboard INTEL 100 MHZ CPU INTEL i430FX PCIset chipset dated 94 AWARD BIOS v4.50PG dated 95 AWARD plug and play bios ext. v1.0A dated 95 Buslogic BT-946C scsi adaptor bios version 4.92C Seagate ST51080N 1G HD Seagate ST15150N 4G HD CL543X PCI VGA NE2000 clone If anyone has a clue as to why I can't even get the menu up let alone install 2.1.5, please let me know. I don't even have a clue as to what to try next. TIA ****************************************************************************** /\ Mark Mathis Micro Access Technologies "Behind every successful /\/\ Mark@Mat.Net PO Box 92224 cat is an obedient owner" /\/\/\ 202/529-5001 Washington, DC 20090 ******************************************************************************
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