From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 1 21:45:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA10366 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 21:45:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.75]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA10361 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 21:45:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA00257; Sun, 1 Sep 1996 21:45:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 21:45:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Brandon Gillespie cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Boot Freeze after fsck.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Brandon Gillespie wrote: > I'm in the process of upgrading from a DELL 486 to a p150 on a tritonII > motherboard. It is SCSI based booting from an IDE drive and serving two > SCSI disks through an adapted 1540 controller. I pull the ram/disks over > to the pentium system and boot, everything _seems_ fine except for it > just STOPS after fsck reports fragmentation etc on all of the disks. > Usually at this point it would do ifconfig, fire up the net and go > through the rest of its boot. I just pulled everything from the pentium > system, plugged it into the 486 system and it works fine, completely > boots as it should (!?!). Try hitting Control-C and see what that does. It may be hanging up on a nameserver lookup on the ifconfig_xxx lines in sysconfig. Change any names there to their respective IP addresses and try that. > On the pentium system I can boot to a shell (-s), manually run fsck on > the disks and mount them, I can fire up the network by hand and it works, > everything SEEMINGLY should work, but it still halts after fsck. > > Help? Check your Ethernet card configuration too. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major