From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 13: 2:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logisticsoftware.co.nz (logisticsoftware.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B26071569D for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:02:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA25207; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:01:24 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:01:24 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Fritz Heinrichmeyer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: no boot on new motherboard (celeron+via+viper-tnt2) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11 Oct 1999, Fritz Heinrichmeyer wrote: > > on saturday my son and i got an celeron, a motherboard with via-chipset > and an AGP card from diamond with a riva-tnt2 chip. Booting freebsd > current from floppy disc failed with a kernel panic and booting linux > from cdrom failed silently (it simply stopped). > Since both the free Unixes failed, I'd guess that it be due to one of two things: 1. bad memory 2. BIOS settings (usually memory related). Jonathan Chen -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny" - Kin Hubbard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message