Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:34:06 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Zoltan Sebestyen <sebesty@cs.elte.hu> Cc: FreeBSD questions mailinglist <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FBSD2.2.2-REL. does not boot! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980216223343.11246G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980216091705.3715B-100000@neumann.cs.elte.hu>
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On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Zoltan Sebestyen wrote: > Last Friday, a friend of mine got sick of using an NT4.0 as a fileserver > for a bunch of Macs and wanted me to install a FreeBSD and setup a > netatalk. The only problem was that FBSD did not boot neither from the > cdrom nor from the boot floppy. It panicked after changing the root device > to fd0c.(It tried to do that even if booting from cdrom, but I think that > can't be a problem, because FBSD did the same on other machinesd without > any problem.) The machine has some old PCI (perhaps ASUS) mainboard, a PCI > NE2000 compatible card(it was recognized well) two 2.5 GIG and two 6 GIG > HDs; a 2.5 was replaced with the cdrom for the install. What was the panic output? How much memory does this machine have? Details, details, details.... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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