From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 29 16:31:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from raffles-it.com (raffles.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8642837B405; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 16:31:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpd@raffles-it.com) Received: from arrow.lan.raffles-it.com (arrow.lan.raffles-it.com [192.168.100.51]) by raffles-it.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7TN9Eo97895; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 00:09:14 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dpd@raffles-it.com) Received: from arrow.lan.raffles-it.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arrow.lan.raffles-it.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7TN9EJ18749; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 00:09:14 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dpd@lan.raffles-it.com) Message-Id: <200108292309.f7TN9EJ18749@arrow.lan.raffles-it.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, dpd@ngfl.gov.uk Subject: IBM NetFinity hanging during install probe Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1376903371P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 00:09:14 +0100 From: David Dooley Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_-1376903371P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, I am trying to set up a IBM NetFinity box with FreeBSD 4.3. I downloaded the two boot floppies from the web site and dd them onto a couple of floppies. The Floppies work fine and I can boot the system. I get to the point in the load that asks about doing a visual or command line edit edit of the config or just continuing. NO matter what I select at this point the system hangs just after probing the sio0 and displaying the chip type. I have gone into the bios and removed both serial ports and the parallel port for good measure, yet the system is still able to probe the sio0 port and still hangs. I have also as part of the visual edit removed all the serial and parallel ports for the list of devices to probe and it still probes sio0 and still hangs. I ahve also removed all the conflicting entries and the system still hangs right after probing.... you guessed it, sio0. The system currently has Linux Mandrake ?? on it, unfortunately no one knows the root passwd, and so I figured, I would recycle the machine and put a real OS on it. Please could any one give me some advice as to where to go from here. A basic spec is A dual pentium III 500Mhz, 1024GB memory, 5 x 9GB SCSI disks on channel B of the inbuilt Adaptec SCSI controller, sorry cant remember the model apart from it starts with a 7, SIS 8mb PCI video card. THis is all I can remember about it at the moment, but if their is anything significant I will port a followup tomorrow. Thanks David. --==_Exmh_-1376903371P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 iD8DBQE7jXYZiTCzTVFwd6wRAm5MAJ0dScTQQP5HqV4XjkmLBMBeFbqQlQCgtK08 wtj7rkgxpG4KXGtqVrQwOpQ= =4Du3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1376903371P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message