From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 0:43:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.98.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A193C37B410 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 00:43:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kheuer@localhost) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.11.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f917hgP44954; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 09:43:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 09:43:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer To: Ben Turner Cc: bsdq Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 2.2.4 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011001093101.S44367-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE 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 Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Ben Turner wrote: > I apologize for the low level of the question but I have just completed a= n > 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 the= re > isn't any disk activity going on so I am guessing it is hung on something= =2E > I cannot figure out why it is hung and I have searched the net with littl= e > results. Did you really install FreeBSD 2.2.4? This release has become very obsolete concerning system security and hardware support! Apart from that, it seems that loading the kernel fails on your system. May be there are bad sectors on your hard disk causing that? Or is the kernel location beyond the 1024 cylinder limit? A long time has passed since I used a 2.2-RELEASE system so I'm not sure about the cause of your problem ... You could try to boot your system by using the install floppy and to explore it by using the fixit floppy. Try to read your hard disk partition with the dd command and take a look whether errors are reported: dd bs=3D8k if=3D/dev/rwd0s1 of=3D/dev/null Please replace this ^1 with the correct partition number on your system! Regards Konrad Heuer Personal Bookmarks: Gesellschaft f=FCr wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH G=D6ttingen http://www.freebsd.org Am Fa=DFberg, D-37077 G=D6ttingen http://www.daemonnews.o= rg Deutschland (Germany) kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message