Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:47:42 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Eivind Olsen <eivind@aminor.no> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting stops on sysinstall Message-ID: <3FFBB99E.5080806@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <170569576.1073463761@[10.122.7.143]> References: <170569576.1073463761@[10.122.7.143]>
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Eivind Olsen wrote: > Hello. > > I just tried to boot FreeBSD 5.2-RC2 from CD (to install it) but it > stops. I see there's already a PR for this dated 28th of December 2003: > i386/60671 > > The laptop I'm trying to install FreeBSD on is not the same model/make > as the one in the PR (the PR mentions a Toshiba Satellite, this one is a > Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook). > > Doing a verbose boot tells me that it stops while trying to start > sysinstall. The last lines of output are: > > start_init: trying /sbin/init > start_init: trying /sbin/oinit > start_init: trying /sbin/init.old > start_init: trying /stand/sysinstall > > (could be spelling errors, I don't have that laptop in front of me right > now) > > There's no error message, things just hang there. If I remember > correctly, doing a non-verbose boot, the last text that's printed is > "mounting root from ufs: /dev/md0". > > Are there any things I should do to perhaps find out why it just hangs? > Any suggestions? > Can you submit a full boot log? Scott
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