From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 26 16:58:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16A9015433 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:58:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA03180; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:07:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200001270107.RAA03180@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: cmdrpc@att.net Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Instillation of FreeBsd 3.x In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2000 00:53:01 GMT." <20000127005302.PFEY12791@webmail.worldnet.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:07:05 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hi > Recently, I tried to upgrade my FreeBSD 3.0 system to a > later version of 3.x FreeBSD. I made the FreeBSD boot > disk and when I went to boot the system with any boot > disk greater than FreeBSD 3.0. I received > /boot.config: -P > Keyboard: no Are you certain it says "no" at this point? It should have stopped printing to the console at this point. > >> FreeBSD/i386 Boot > Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/loader > boot: (at this point the system either hangs or > garbage start to appear on the screen. If I > press return more garbage is printed.) > > The system is a Pentium Pro with 32MB Ram, two EIDE hard > drive 516MB and 3.6GB, AMI bios, Adaptec 2940UW, > Microsoft serial Mouse, Northgate OMNIKey Ultra Keyboard. Is this an 84 or 104-key keyboard? > Any help will greatly be appreciated. Your system appears to be hopelessly incompatible with our bootloader; you may need to replace your video card or upgrade the system BIOS - it's hard to tell with the symptoms you describe. I'm sorry I can't offer more help than this. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message