From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 23 10:41: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phobos.samuelson.com (pm31-p167.netexp.net [205.182.69.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE7B314E0D for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:40:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bolski@netexp.net) Received: (qmail 7149 invoked by uid 500); 23 Apr 1999 17:38:56 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 23 Apr 1999 17:38:56 -0000 Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:38:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Ivan Samuelson X-Sender: bolski@phobos.samuelson.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 3.1 on HP Vectra VL 6 Series 7 DT 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've reformatted them again (three times) and they still don't work on the PII VL. But, as I stated in my post, they work on other machines (not Vectra VLs), so I know this is not the problem. I've downloaded the 2.2.8 release and it boots fine on the VL, so I'm pretty sure it's a VL problem with FreeBSD... On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Ivan Samuelson wrote: > > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.1 onto an HP Vectra VL 6/266 Series 7 DT > > PC. It's a PII-233 with 32 megs of memory, 4 gig IDE harddrive, a Cirrus Logic > > 546X video card (AGP), Diamond Monster 3D card, SMC EtherEZ (8416) ethernet > > card, Aztech 23230 Compatible PnP Audio card (came with machine), Matshita > > CD-ROM CR-588 (IDE) and a Phoenix BIOS 6.0.0 > > > > I can boot the Kernel floppy with no problem. When I insert the MFS root floppy > > and hit enter, I get the following dump: > > > > int=0000000e eir=00000004 efl=00030246 eip=000020da > > eax=00002001 ebx=00000000 ecx=0000df07 edx=000003f5 > > esi=0000a6fc edi=0000a6fc ebp=000003da esp=000003d0 > > cs=ebfa ds=0040 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9db7 > > cs:eip=8a 64 0a 8a c4 d0 e4 c0-e8 02 02 e0 b0 ff 2a c4 > > ss:esp=00 f0 fd 20 ca 28 31 25-fc a6 00 00 fe 9d fc a6 > > System Halted > > Could you format the disks again, or use different floppies and > try again? Most really weird booth problems are caused by bad > floppies. > > Then just use "fdimage.exe" to make the floppies again. (It seems > that Linux's 'dd' doesn't make for good boot floppies.) > > If this doesn't help, then please post again we'd love to help. > > -Alfred > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ivan Samuelson * Staff Support Coordinator and * bolski@netexp.net Information Systems Consultant * Metro Information Services * http://www.netexp.net/~bolski http://www.MetroIS.com * -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message