From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 24 12:31:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01350 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:31:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01331 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:31:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA26390; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:31:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:31:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Sourav Ghosh cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with freebsd In-Reply-To: <199802232202.RAA00245@modern.art.cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Sourav Ghosh wrote: > I have 2 Dell dimension XPSD300 ( Pentium II, 300Mhz) PCs , each with ~6.3GB > hard disk. I installed everything well. Both were working fine until today > when I tried to reboot one machine after making some changes in the network > configuration, and now I can't get past the 'F?' prompt. Um, ok. Did you shutdown the system properly last time you powered off? > But the other machine of the same type is working fine even after reboot. I > checked your FAQ about this problem but it seems unlikely that there is a > problem with the Disk geometry since another machine of the same geometry( same > BIOS settings)& the same freebsd(2.2.1) is working perfectly well(from where > I am sending this mail). Try booting your partition from the floppy. > I have another PC which has PPP network interface(for modem). > This machine for some reason fails to communicate with other FreeBSD machines > through telnet or ftp. In both the cases, it halts after it gets 'connected' > and after sometime the connection gets closed. Sounds like the routes aren't getting added. 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