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Date:      Tue, 01 Sep 1998 12:45:39 -0500
From:      "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>
To:        "Doug Jolley" <doug@footech.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Boot Problems
Message-ID:  <199809011645.MAA02369@laker.net>

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On Tue, 1 Sep 1998 07:59:56 -0700 (PDT), Doug Jolley wrote:

>I have a very basic 486 box running FreeBSD 2.2.7.  By "basic"
>I mean just a single IDE drive, floppy drive, ATAPI CD-ROM,
>controller card and video card.  Until yesterday, it was running
>just fine.  All of the sudden, it hangs in the boot process at
>the following point:
>
>   FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE#0: Wed Jul 22 08:48:29 GMT 1998
>       root@builder.cdrom.com/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
>
>When I try to boot from the boot floppy, it hangs at exactly the
>same point (the message is slightly different in that a different
>date is referenced and the kernel referenced is BOOTMFS).  I can
>boot other machines from the same boot floppy just fine.  The
>machine will boot MSDOS just fine.
>
>I'm at a loss.  Can anyone shed any light on what might be going
>on here?

According to my log, the next thing it's doing is clock calibration...

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FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE #0: Fri Aug 21 08:42:19 EDT 1998
    root@486DX66.StevenFriedrich.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/AMD486
Calibrating clock(s) ... i8254 clock: 1193575 Hz
CLK_USE_I8254_CALIBRATION not specified - using default frequency
CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU)
real memory  = 16777216 (16384K bytes)



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