From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 4 10:24:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28652 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 10:24:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from guinness.it.net.au (guinness.it.net.au [203.8.117.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA28540 for ; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 10:23:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@guinness.it.net.au) Received: (from andrew@localhost) by guinness.it.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA03816 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 01:22:45 +0800 Message-ID: <19981005012243.U15425@guinness.it.net.au> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 01:22:43 +0800 From: Andrew Shugg To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installing FreeBSD on an AMD 386 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i X-URL: http://home.it.net.au/~yautja/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, As per the directions on the FreeBSD website, I am sending a message to a mailing list which I'm not on, and I have no idea what goes on here ... :) I have been trying hard to install FreeBSD on a machine I picked up a few days ago. Until now I have only been running Linux as my 'alternative' operating system at home and am really keen to run FreeBSD on this 'new' machine. I have tried both the 2.2.7 and the 3.0-19980804-SNAP install disks (boot.flp, written to clean error-free floppies with dd in linux). On this new system, which is an AMD 386DX clone, both disks will boot, and come to the kernel config screen. I remove nearly all the devices from the list (this is a very minimal system) and then proceed. The system continues, correctly finding the ethernet card, the serial and parallel ports, and the hard disk. The blue screen then comes up with "Probing for devices" and then it just sits there. I found that alt-F2 shows the debug screen, which showed that the aforementioned devices were found. Going back to alt-F1, the blue screen is still just sitting there - the longest I've left it is fifty minutes, with no progress. I know the machine hasn't actually crashed, because I can still press ^C and abort. I tried the 3.0-19980804-SNAP disk on a genuine Intel 386, and it went past that blue screen with no problems, and went straight on to the next part of the installation procedure. I have tried a different network card in the problem machine, and tried removing the network card altogether; no difference. The only unusual thing about this system is that it is an AMD CPU, not Intel. Is there some known problem with AMD chips and FreeBSD? Is there some way to get this dang thing to install? It doesn't really need to probe for hardware, because apart from the network card it's a bare system. I've installed linux on it in the meantime, which went on fine. I'd like to be able to get FreeBSD onto it though (somehow). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. My email address is 'andrew@guinness.it.net.au' - thanks. Regards, Andrew -- Andrew Shugg "Just remember Basil, there's always someone worse off than yourself." "Oh, really? I'd like to meet him ... I could do with a good laugh." [ Sybil and Basil Fawlty - "Fawlty Towers" ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message