From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 16 12:33:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96D1117FB for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:33:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00504; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:26:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902162026.MAA00504@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Christoph Kukulies Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall - ALT F2 black screen In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:26:46 +0100." <199902161026.LAA21826@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:26:46 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I'm installing on a ASUS P55T2P4 again on an IBM DHEA 38451 with the > 3.0 STABLE install floppies. > > Making filesystem on wd0s1f took quite long and did not end. Trying to > switch to the DEBUG screen (ALT F2) gives me a black screen. > > Anyone seen this? Works fine here on an 8GB Western Digital. > Or is my hardware still screwed? Not finding the wdc controllers > in previous efforts was caused by some special wiring the colleague added > to disable the hard disks by a switch on the front panel (which took > off power from the hard drive while leaving it cabled to the controller). Yuck. That's extra-bad. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message