Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:26:09 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "local.freebsd.current" <local.freebsd.current@insignia.com> Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DP2 (I think!) crash booting from floppies Message-ID: <XFMail.20021120122609.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <2F03DF3DDE57D411AFF4009027B8C3670289D549@exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com>
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On 20-Nov-2002 local.freebsd.current wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:32:29 -0000, local.freebsd.current@insignia.com
> ("local.freebsd.current") wrote:
>
>>I got a pair of floppies from:
>>
>>ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/5.0-20021103-SNAP/floppies
> /
>>
>>and booted them on a Dell Dimension XPS D300 which is currently
>>running 4.7. It's a PII/300 with an Adaptec 2940 SCSI and an
>>STB Riva graphics card.
>
> I've now tried a third machine, one whose disk I can overwrite.
> This is a PII/400 (MSI 6119 board) with two IDE drives, an IDE
> CD, a Kingston (Realtek) NIC and ATI graphics.
>
> I can get as far as FDISK but when I hit A to use the entire
> disk, nothing happens. It doesn't respond to the keyboard at
> all. Numlock still toggles the light so *something* is there,
> but not a lot.
Can you use Alt-F2 to switch to the debug terminal and see if there
is any output? You probably want to switch before you do the fdisk,
then switch again afterwards to see if there is any new output. You
can get back to the main screen from the debug terminal by using
Alt-F1.
--
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