From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 18 19:46:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA22436 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 19:46:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA22426 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 19:46:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA02315; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 19:46:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 19:46:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Andrew Von Dollen cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with Install In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19971118171753.006ab3c4@mail.geocities.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Andrew Von Dollen wrote: > Hello, In trying to install freebsd, I have run into a problem which I hope > is easily worked around. > > I downloaded the files needed to make a boot floppy, made a boot floppy, > then downloaded the whole bin directory from ftp.freebsd.org. I then tried > to boot from the floppy by restarting. Everything seemed to be going well, > I got to the Kernel setup screen and edited all of the hardware settings > according to my system setup. I quit that, then it went on to the > 'detecting' screen. It went through most of the devices, but then, after > saying "wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa" a blank screen with only a > cursor in the bottom left came up. It seemed to freeze up at this point, I > have tried leaving it for quite some time and it still does nothing. Something on your second IDE controller isn't happy. Try disabling wdc1 in the boot-time configuration, and check cabling and master/slave jumpers. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major