Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 21:43:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Keith Leonard <keithl@gil.net> To: Michael Nix <Mike.Nix@amd.com> Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5 SCSI install. Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.960924213706.9874A-100000@wakko.gil.net> In-Reply-To: <9609241329.AA28010@bianca.amd.com.amd.com>
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Michael, Just a shot in the dark here (being fairly new to BSD myself), however, when trying to boot BSD from DOG I ran into a similar problem - it was caused by: Himem and Emm386 When I remmed them out of the config file I had no problem booting from the CD. Of course there will be alot of complaining from loadhigh (LH) but the device drivers will load and you probably can install from the CD. The reason the disk installation worked is that you booted from the floppy and all the DOG doo doo didn't get in the way. by the way - I'm envious, a lot of high powered hardware there! Keith keithl@gil.net _____________________________________________________________________ Maybe if we knew where we were rushing to - it would all make sense --------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Michael Nix wrote: > > Hello: > > I just purchased a new PC, and FreeBSD 2.1.5 to run on it. > Installation from a CD-ROM did not work. > Installation from a DOS partition did not work. > > Installation of a minimum system from floppy-disks worked well. > > The details of my hardware are: > > AMD 486-133MHz PCI-bus mother-board from American Megatrends. > Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller. > 2.1GB Seagate SCSI disk-drive for DOS. > 1.2GB Hewlet-Packard SCSI disk-drive for FreeBSD. > Plextar 4X SCSI CD-ROM drive. > Stealth Video-card. > 33600 Baud internal modem (I do not remember the manufacturer). > Creative Technologies Sound-Blaster-16 card. > Gravis game-port card. > > While trying to install FreeBSD from the CD-ROM, or from DOS disk-space, > I would get multiple errors complaining about check-sum erorrs and > premature end-of-files. The CD-ROM drive, and the DOS disk_drive > work well for DOS applications. > > When doing the installation from floppy-disks, I had no harware problems > or warnings. The FreeBSD manual was a little incomplete: Be sure > to copy all the files in /bin on to floppies, not just those listed > in the table. > > Now, I need to spend some time debugging my hardware problem so that > I can get the rest of the operating system loaded. > > Hopefully, this will be of some help to those trying to get 2.1.5 up > on a SCSI system. > > Sincerely, > Michael Nix > AMD, Austin > September 24, 1996 8:22 a. m. >
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