From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 19 03:30:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA23908 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 03:30:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from home ([203.0.93.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA23903 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 03:30:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Joel_Sutton@bigpond.com.au) Received: from localhost (jsutton@localhost) by home (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA27978 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 22:31:14 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: stargate.home: jsutton owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 22:31:13 +1100 (EST) From: Joel Sutton X-Sender: jsutton@stargate.home To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Trouble installing 3.0-Release on 386 DX40 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 Hi, I'm having trouble installing 3.0-Release onto two clapped out old 386 DX40's that I have kicking about. I've made a boot floppy out of boot.flp in the standard way and I can boot and configure devices without a problem. Once the device drivers have loaded, sysinstall gets stuck on with "Probing Devices" in a dialog box. However, I am able to change to VTTY2 and the the DEBUG output (which reports it has found the network, hard drive and floppy drive devices. Upon inspection of the boot up messages (scroll lock and page up) I've noticed a conspicuous line "no 387 emulator in kernel". I am particularly suspicious of this because I have been able to start up sysinstall on my 386DX + 387 co-processor and complete the installation. Another bit of evidence is that I can also start up sysinstall from 2.2.6-RELEASE on the 386DX40 (no co-processor). Are there any know problems similar to this? Or could there be a bug in the boot.flp disk? If anyone could offer some suggestions, or point out the obvious to me, I would be most greatful. My hardware configuration for both problems machines are: 386DX 40 Processor 8 meg 30 pin ram 128k Cache 3c509 Network Card Multi-io card (IDE, Floppy, Serial, Parallel) 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy 1.2MB 5.25" Floppy 420MB HD on one machine and 501MB HD on the other Thanks, Joel... --- Joel Sutton jsutton@panic.oeit.vic.edu.au "This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message