From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 0:40:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com (cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com [24.13.23.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EE8E37B40A for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 00:40:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brian (dns.sonicboom.org [24.13.23.147]) by cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with SMTP id f917eJl83764; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 00:40:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Message-ID: <002301c14a4c$4bf1eb00$3324200a@sonicboom.org> From: "Brian" To: "Ben Turner" , "bsdq" References: Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 2.2.4 Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 00:40:03 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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 Got some nice old hardware to go with that ancient release?? That looks to be circa 1997, so 2000 hardware may make it do funny stuff. Bri ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Turner" To: "bsdq" Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 12:17 AM Subject: Installing FreeBSD 2.2.4 > I apologize for the low level of the question but I have just completed an > install of FreeBSD and when it is booting all I can see is a | and a > blinking cursor underneath it. The screen does not all for input and there > isn't any disk activity going on so I am guessing it is hung on something. > I cannot figure out why it is hung and I have searched the net with little > results. > > Please if anyone has heard of this let me know what the heck is > happening.... > > Thanks, > Ben > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message