From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 18 09:15:25 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA10611 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 09:15:25 -0800 Received: from mail04.mail.aol.com (mail04.mail.aol.com [152.163.172.53]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA10599 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 09:15:23 -0800 From: Gieger@aol.com Received: by mail04.mail.aol.com (1.37.109.11/16.2) id AA005136891; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 12:14:51 -0500 Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 12:14:51 -0500 Message-Id: <950318121449_53401019@aol.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Boot crash. Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm having trouble booting your BSD 2.0 software (SNAP version too) I have no trouble installing and mounting the systems. After the install is done it tells me to remove the floppy and hit return to reboot from hard drive. It reboots & comes up with the BSD boot screen along with the "Boot:" prompt. If I hit return, type '?', type '/kernal-c' or anything it locks up. Normally there is a little twirling "|" symbol but it just prints "|" and locks solid. My bios geometry matches BSD, I did write the boot code. I read the troubleshooting, readme's and other FAQS but nothing helps. I have it on a drive by itself (no MSDOS) and I did not select 'use all drive', I used edit slice. I have a 80486DX66 system with UMC chipset. 8MB RAM, a Promise EIDE2300+ controller (I used the regular isa ide controller side of it.) and a Maxtor 212mb 7213A drive. My system is a 3 slot VLB board. I have no trouble running MSDOS or OS/2 2.1 & WARP on it. It also has a Proaudio 16 sound card with a Toshiba XM-3401 CD-ROM.