From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 6 13:44:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA05074 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 13:44:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05065 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 13:44:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA03770; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 13:45:04 -0700 Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 13:45:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Kas Conboy cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing In-Reply-To: <31B6F280.10A1@mail.acecomputers.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Kas Conboy wrote: > 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 What IDE controller? It wouldn't be a Promise 2300 would it? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major