From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 03:39:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA04898 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 03:39:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua (ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua [212.42.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA04893 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 03:39:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sobomax@altavista.net) Received: from vega. (async2-19.iptelecom.net.ua [212.42.68.147]) by ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20075; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:40:30 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@altavista.net) Received: from altavista.net (big_brother [192.168.1.1]) by vega. (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA74581; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:37:47 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@altavista.net) Message-ID: <36C01DEC.E580B6DE@altavista.net> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 13:37:16 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Kukulies CC: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 install woes References: <199902091124.MAA05261@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This sometimes can happen :( However, to avoid hungs - boot with -c option and in visual configure mode disable all devices which you doesn't have. Maxim Christoph Kukulies wrote: > I took a 3.0 kernel #3 floppy and tried to install 3.0 on two systems > and both failed: > > 1. System: > >      PCB Motherboard , Amd 386/40, Cyrix FasMath (w/ or w/o) >      8 MB, IDE IBM DHEA 38451 (16384/16/63) > >      The most I could achieve was booting up into blue install screen >      mode but got hung during probing devices (only NE2000, VGA and IDE >      controller present, nothing fancy). > > 2. System > >      ASUS P55T2P4, same HD, but also SCSI disks and a Syquest removable >      medium. P5/200, 128 MB, xl0 network device. > >      Symptoms: > >      at boot: prompt there is a long beep (for a second or so) > >      finds xl0, SCSI disks but wdc0 and wdc1 are not found !. >      (although the HD is there in the BIOS) > >      Comes up into install mode, but when choosing custom->partition >      there are No disks found. >   > > -- > Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message