From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 6 11:04:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA22442 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 11:04:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA22267 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 11:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id SAA26994; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 18:53:39 +0100 (BST) To: Kas Conboy cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Installing In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jun 1996 08:00:16 PDT." <31B6F280.10A1@mail.acecomputers.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 18:53:39 +0100 Message-ID: <26992.834083619@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kas Conboy wrote in message ID <31B6F280.10A1@mail.acecomputers.com>: > I am having a problem with the installation of FreeBSD > I have a 486 dx4 100 32 MB ram and a 1.2 seagate HD > I install from the CD-rom and it says everything went fine > Then it reboots and it comes up to the BootManeger and I choose BSD > the it gives the > boot: > prompt and I hit enter to run default > then it just sits there and does nothing I get "|" and thats about it > no HD access or anything just a pipe and a locked computer Let me guess. You are using a Promise EIDE2300 controller? Either replace the controller or disable the cards on-board BIOS. The on-board BIOS does something funny which our boot loader can't handle, which results in the freeze. Sorry I can't offer any other solutions, but no-one who knows about BIOS hacking has either seen this problem or has the timeto go digging :-( I've seen this happen myself, so I know that it's something specific to the 2300... (it went away when the card was replaced with a generic ``dumb'' (E)IDE card). Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info