From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 14 9:31:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nelly.internal.irrelevant.org (irrelevant.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E74F37B419 for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 09:31:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from simond by nelly.internal.irrelevant.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16wmts-000CH5-00; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 17:30:48 +0100 Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 17:30:48 +0100 From: Simon Dick To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?St=F8ttrup=2CJan?= JSU Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Error installing FreeBSD 4.5 Message-ID: <20020414163048.GB1406@irrelevant.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 06:13:22PM +0200, "Støttrup,Jan JSU" wrote: > Hello > > I have been trying to install FreeBSD 4.5 on a Compaq Proliant 2500, but > everytime I get to the menu-page where I'm supposed to select > how I wish to install, it simply freezes up. It doesn't react to any input I > give it. I have been watching the boot-process very carefully and I > haven't been able to spot any error og failures during. > I've tryed booting from both floppies and from CD. > > Since I don't get an error message returned it is kinda hard to figure out > what happens. I've read all the faq's I could find and searched the net, > without any luck. I hope you can help. > > The machine is a Compaq Proliant 2500 server, with 320 MB RAM, dual > PentiumPro 200Mhz CPU's and a Compaq Array controller. The > server has previosly been running WinNT4.0 and Win2K flawlessly. I'm guessing that the keyboard isn't being detected properly which seems to happen to me on almost all my machines too, if you can, set the atkbd device options to 0x0 which will allow your keyboard to work (I built my own mini ISO for personal use with that set, makes things easier!) -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message