Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 09:53:06 -0600 From: "Ben Turner" <turnball_@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 2.2.4 Message-ID: <OE41ux4Jf7zynrvDOv500007031@hotmail.com> References: <20011001093101.S44367-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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Yea I figured out that it was an extremely old version after I had gotten the disks to finally boot up. I tried to get the newer 4.3 but I couldn't get it on a disk properly. I have burned the 4.4, 4.3, and 4.2 verison and all of them are not viewable after I burn them. Since I haven't been able to view the files on the disk, I haven't been able to make any boot disks. For some reason none of these cd's are bootable either. Well so much for buying a book and having a decent copy of FreeBSD in it. Getting close to scrapping the whole FreeBSD project and going with Redhat just because I think I have a disk for it that will install without requiring a PHD in Computer Science. Getting frustrating but thanks for your help! Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Konrad Heuer" <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> To: "Ben Turner" <turnball_@hotmail.com> Cc: "bsdq" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 1:43 AM Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 2.2.4 On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Ben Turner wrote: > I apologize for the low level of the question but I have just completed an > install of FreeBSD and when it is booting all I can see is a | and a > blinking cursor underneath it. The screen does not all for input and there > isn't any disk activity going on so I am guessing it is hung on something. > I cannot figure out why it is hung and I have searched the net with little > results. Did you really install FreeBSD 2.2.4? This release has become very obsolete concerning system security and hardware support! Apart from that, it seems that loading the kernel fails on your system. May be there are bad sectors on your hard disk causing that? Or is the kernel location beyond the 1024 cylinder limit? A long time has passed since I used a 2.2-RELEASE system so I'm not sure about the cause of your problem ... You could try to boot your system by using the install floppy and to explore it by using the fixit floppy. Try to read your hard disk partition with the dd command and take a look whether errors are reported: dd bs=8k if=/dev/rwd0s1 of=/dev/null Please replace this ^1 with the correct partition number on your system! Regards Konrad Heuer Personal Bookmarks: Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH GÖttingen http://www.freebsd.org Am Faßberg, D-37077 GÖttingen http://www.daemonnews.org Deutschland (Germany) kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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