From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 28 11:53:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA21204 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 11:53:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mother.cdrom.com (mother.cdrom.com [204.216.28.172]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA21199 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 11:53:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (support@localhost) by mother.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA09900 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 11:53:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 11:53:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamil Weatherbee To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD installation problem (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Technical Support Walnut Creek CDROM ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 07:55:44 -0500 (CDT) From: "Robert J. Rubin" To: support@cdrom.com Subject: FreeBSD installation problem Hi. I've got the January 1996 FreeBSD 2.1 CDROM, and I'm having some installation problems. I know you guys didn't write it, but I'm hoping that you've seen my problem before. (I tried posting to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, but didn't get much of a response :-( ). I a nutshell, I'm attempting to install on a 486/66 VLB w/ 16M RAM. The only hardware in the machine is a non-VLB IDE controller with 2 drives a Mitsumi CD-ROM, and a VLB Mach 32 video board (I also tried a Trident I had laying around). Before booting, I disable all other non-essential hardware (including all serial ports, network boards, all other disk controllers, etc...). The installation will hang immediately after "writing paritition information." The screen hangs with that message, though I believe it actually gets written. I can see the partitions have been defined if a reboot and go through fdisk again. I connected the hard drive and CD-ROM to a Pentium 133 and loaded the OS with no problem. Once connecting the loaded drive back onto the 486, it hangs during boot after a fsck'ing the file systems. And ideas? Thanks, -Robert -- Robert J. Rubin rubin@sequel.com