From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 1 09:46:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA08556 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:46:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA08545 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:46:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-156.laker.net [208.0.233.56]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id MAA02369; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 12:45:19 -0400 Message-Id: <199809011645.MAA02369@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Doug Jolley" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 12:45:39 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.00.1500) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Boot Problems Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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... Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message