From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 16 06:59:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB9A316A4CE for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 06:59:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from nimbus.webrelay.net (nimbus.webrelay.net [66.243.72.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C71243D31 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 06:59:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scion@webrelay.net) Received: from webrelay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nimbus.webrelay.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D7138026 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:59:33 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: scion+fbsdq@webrelay.net In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:29:51 EST." <20040312182951.7C66338026@nimbus.webrelay.net> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:59:33 -0500 Sender: scion@webrelay.net Message-Id: <20040316145933.54D7138026@nimbus.webrelay.net> Subject: Booting Compaq 1850R WasRe: 5.2.1 miniinst cd panic during 3rd phase boot (kernel start). X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:59:39 -0000 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 >>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 , and selected the "install OS - other" the system stopped, then the freebsd install completed without a hitch. -sam