From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 13 11:12:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03316 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:12:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from u2.farm.idt.net (u2.farm.idt.net [169.132.8.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03268 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:11:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jzollo@idt.net) Received: from localhost (jzollo@localhost) by u2.farm.idt.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA24710 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 14:11:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 14:11:29 -0400 (EDT) From: John Zollo X-Sender: jzollo@u2.farm.idt.net Reply-To: John Zollo To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Booting freeze while loading kernel 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 I sucessfully installed FreeBSD 2.2.7 off a dos partition using a boot floppy -- so I know the kernel on the boot floppy works fine. After rebooting, the boot manager displays the "boot:" prompt, and I hit enter. The kernel starts to load, and the first slash starts to twirl. After twirling for a few seconds it freezes -- and that's it. It stops at the first spinning slash. I tried the debug and verbose options at the boot: prompt, but it never gets to the point where they would be useful. What should I do? thank you! John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message