From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 05:55:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA16074 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 05:55:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA16043 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 05:55:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA05696; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:54:57 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from kuku) Message-ID: <19990209145457.B5663@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:54:57 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Maxim Sobolev , Christoph Kukulies Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 install woes References: <199902091124.MAA05261@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <36C01DEC.E580B6DE@altavista.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91 In-Reply-To: <36C01DEC.E580B6DE@altavista.net>; from Maxim Sobolev on Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 01:37:16PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 01:37:16PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > 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. I should have mentioned that I did that already. The installation disk lets you enter into this mode anyway, so there is no need for the -c option or am I wrong? > > 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 -- --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