Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:59:33 -0500 From: scion+fbsdq@webrelay.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Booting Compaq 1850R WasRe: 5.2.1 miniinst cd panic during 3rd phase boot (kernel start). Message-ID: <20040316145933.54D7138026@nimbus.webrelay.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:29:51 EST." <20040312182951.7C66338026@nimbus.webrelay.net>
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From: scion+fbsdq@webrelay.net Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:29:51 -0500 >Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:47:32 +0100 >From: kybu <kybu@aurius.sk> >>SCN> I haven't seen anything in the PR list or -questions just like this. >> >>SCN> My Compaq 1850 (2x PII-450, 1GByte Ram) boots up the 5.2.1-release >>SCN> miniinst cdrom just fine, loads the kenel, and just after waiting >>SCN> for SCSI devices to settle, panics. >> >>SCN> It does this with or without devices on the scsi bus. >> >>SCN> Anyone else have one of these critters working with 5.x? Otherwise, >>SCN> anyone else have the same/a similar symptom? >> >>Yeah, I got similar problem on Compaq 1650. I just change the OS >>system type with SmartStart CD to Linux and then it works fine. >> > >Thanks, it almost worked...At least I got past discovering disks. >Now, when booting, it goes past discovering disks, and indicates >/stand/sysinstall is starting on vty0. > >After that no joy. I'm thinking that the vga or keyboard isn't >jiving with the vty system, and that it is running fine, but not >where I can see it. > Well, the config utility was indeed the key. Turned out that after I booted from the utility partition, which is created with the config utility <http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/13227.html>, and selected the "install OS - other" the system stopped, then the freebsd install completed without a hitch. -sam
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