From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 1 20:43:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bsd.ee.ntu.edu.tw (bsd.ee.ntu.edu.tw [140.112.18.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 321FE37B420 for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2002 20:42:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by bsd.ee.ntu.edu.tw (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 19578FB3F; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:42:32 +0800 (CST) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:42:32 +0800 From: sothat To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system halted after boot with CD-ROM (but before installation) Message-ID: <20020102044231.GA29091@bsd.ee.ntu.edu.tw> Mail-Followup-To: sothat , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i 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 On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 04:35:48PM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > My desktop computer can be booted with a standard freebsd 4.4 CD-ROM, but > it > halted at the screen asking me "a standard installation" or "custom > installation" or "Expressed installation" etc. I have a intel 82810 > mainboard, with on-board display adapter and sound, with an extra > display(sis 5596) adapter (for dual dispaly) and a NIC, a modem installed > on > PCIs. It seems as if only keyboard cannot send a thing to system. Maybe > it's > a bug. The CD-ROM runs OK on other machines. Is Alt-F2 workable ? What did the message it display ? -- -sothat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message