Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 05:05:07 -0700 From: wclark@xoom.com (Bill Clark) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: New Problems Message-ID: <33FC2EF3.1E93D96F@xoom.com>
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First off, let me correct a mixup I made in describing my system:
The primary SCSI controller is the AHA2940, and the secondary
(controlling the RAID) is the NCR53C875.
I gave up on trying to get the RAID to work (for now), but am faced
with an even more annoying problem:
FreeBSD has random problems upon installation.
Sometimes, after an install the mouse will not work. Sometimes, X
will not work. Every single time, the network configuration is lost
upon reboot, and /stand/sysinstall (when it even manages to load) has
major curses problems, especially on the network configuration screen
(for ftp'ing packages) -- and always locks up if I try to enter the
information in again.
I've reduced the machine to it's original (as of last week, when
everything was working just fine) configuration -- just the one internal
SEAGATE 4G drive on the Adaptec controller, and attempted a reinstall of
the OS several times. It simply will not work. fsck finds no problems
with the drive, nor does the bios. I even did a low-level format (hey,
what the hell -- I have three hours to kill while I'm coding something
else, right? ;), thinking that somehow the problem is with the hardware,
but still no go.
Everything works correctly when I'm running off the install disk (so
I know the hardware is okay), but as soon as I boot into the local
kernel, things get screwed. I doubt that I've downloaded corrupt files
almost a dozen times in a row, but I'm completely at a loss here.
Any idea?
-Bill Clark
Xoom
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