From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 17 18:55:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA09030 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 18:55:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.airmail.net (mail.airmail.net [206.66.12.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA09017 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 18:55:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mceder@airmail.net) Received: from mceder from [207.136.46.251] by mail.airmail.net (/\##/\ Smail3.1.30.16 #30.216) with smtp for id ; Mon, 17 Nov 97 20:55:53 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19971117205545.00695608@mail.airmail.net> X-Sender: mceder@mail.airmail.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 20:55:47 -0700 To: Doug White From: Mikael Cederberg Subject: Re: Screen totally messed up after reboot. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 04:58 PM 11/17/97 -0800, Doug White wrote: >> wanted to boot to DOS or to the second drive, it started booting up into >> freeBSD by loading the kernel of the right drive etc, but then my whole >> screen is filled with garbage signs or ascII junk in different colors and >> that's as far as I get. > >What's the details on the machine? Video card? Other hardware? > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Before I list that, just wanted to mention - it worked fine before on my old drive(nowthe dos partition).. The graphics card is a Cirrus Logic 5434 PCI. The computer is an Acer pentium motherboard. 16mb RAM. Primary IDE controller got a maxtor 514MB running windows95 as a master and a mitsumi 4x cdrom as a slave. The secondary IDE controller got a samsung 3.2GB set up as a master with FBSD installed. It is when i boot of the samsung that this problem is happening. It gets to where it asks from where it should boot the kernel.. it goes to the default ( 1:wd(1,a)kernel ) and then types out a line that says text=0x12a 006 and then another line that goes away to quick to see. The next thing - the whole screen is filled with ascii signs in different colors.. Now, another thing I want to mention.. My bios doesnt appear to be supporting the 3.2 gig samsung fully.. it finds it with all the sectors, but I had problems installing it as a dos partition before. A friend tried the same drive on another computer and it worked fine - so it appears that the drive is correct. But from what I heard, FreeBSD doesnt care about the BIOS.. Sincerely, Mikael Cederberg -- Say no to drugs, violence on tv and HTML code in emails!! [swedish.redneck@airmail.net] --