From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 2 1: 6:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au [137.111.216.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9008614E4C for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 01:06:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jont@mpce.mq.edu.au) Received: from krakatoa.mpce.mq.edu.au (jont@krakatoa.mpce.mq.edu.au [137.111.240.12]) by macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08468 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 20:06:21 +1100 (EST) Received: (from jont@localhost) by krakatoa.mpce.mq.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id UAA12029 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 20:06:16 +1100 (EST) From: Jonathon Earnshaw TIDSWELL Message-Id: <199903020906.UAA12029@krakatoa.mpce.mq.edu.au> Subject: 3.1R install/multiboot problem To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 20:06:16 +1100 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG System: Dell OptiPlex GXpro disks: wd0: Quantum 3GB, two NTFS partitions, the first bootable wd1: Quantum 516MB, 1 freebsd partition install using floppies and ftp (ftp.au.freebsd.org) 'novice' install appears to complete successfully on boot I get two options "F1 ??" "F5 disk1" "Default F1:" selecting F1 boots NT successfully selecting F5 bring up a new menu "F1 FreeBSD" "F5 disk0" "Default F1:" selecting F1 almost immediately results in a dump of the registers and the message "system halted". [ The screen hasn't been cleared, or scrolled by messages about device probing, the problem is early on. ] Any suggestions as to whats wrong and how to fix it ? TIA - JonT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message