From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 8: 3:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from draenor.org (draenor.org [196.36.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3082737B4C5 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 08:03:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from marcs by draenor.org with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13qHOv-000AgV-00; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:03:09 +0200 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:03:09 +0200 From: Marc Silver To: Daniel Faria Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Technical support - trouble with starting the system Message-ID: <20001030180309.F39296@draenor.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from daniel_faria@hotmail.com on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:58:26AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey there, You'll definitely want to try and install a more recent version of FreeBSD in order to benefit from all the new support etc for the hardware you're running. Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org for more info on how you can get the most current release. :) Wish I could help you with 2.2.8, but it's a little old, hence my recommendation to upgrade. Cheers, Marc On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:58:26AM -0500, Daniel Faria wrote: > Greetings, > > > I have the 4-cd set of FreeBSD 2.2.8. I used to have it installed before, > however now I upgraded my computer (now I got a Pentium III 733MHz with 64Mb > SDRAM) and after I finished the installation process, it reboots, if I > change the configuration profile (to remove the hardware conflicts) and try > to save it, the machine freezes. Otherwise, if I choose not to save the > profile, it resumes the loading. When it finishes detecting the hardware, it > saya 'panic: cannot mount root' and then reboots automatically in 15 > seconds, only to return to the same condition...is there anything that can > be done? > > I'd appreciate if there is any chance that I can run FreeBSD once and for > all...thank you for your attention! > > Daniel Faria > > Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message