Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 17:19:14 -0400 From: Allen Landsidel <all@biosys.net> To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Weird crash installing onto SCSI disk system Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000912171036.00b37f08@mail.megapathdsl.net> In-Reply-To: <A68AA62F0D1BD3119CC900805F7157E7D99561@MFORTOK1>
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At 09:04 09/13/2000 +1200, Massey, Craig (CNI Support) wrote: >I'm game. How do I capture it? It screams up the screen too fast to read >and I'm not at a stage where I have any control over the machine to >redirect anything to a file, run a screen grabber or do anything else >I'd normally do to get emailable information. Hmmm.. if scroll lock is functional at that point you can try that and then do something as tedious as typing it into a file by hand or taking a snapshot of the screen with a camera on another machine. It sounds like you've already gotten to/passed the line that allows you to get the kernel options up, although never having installed from CD I can't say if that even gives you the options or not. Booting from floppy automatically takes you into a choice to kernel config or not. If you get the opportunity to do this, double check all your settings and disable anything you don't have, along with anything you do have but don't require to get down to installing.. basically that means just the mass storage controllers you're using, the console drivers, and the network driver. If you have the bandwidth you may want to try a 4.1-R ftp install via the boot diskettes, as it could be a hardware issue fixed in a later version/stable tree. Brings me to another point.. could you provide the details of the system you're installing this to.. hardware configuration and that kind of thing? -------signature file------- PGP Key Fingerprint: 446B 7718 B219 9F1E 43DD 8E4A 6BE9 D739 CCC5 7FD7 Available from ldap://certserver.pgp.com "I don't think [Linux] will be very successful in the long run." "My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is quite unreliable. Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is worse." -Ken Thompson, Interview May 1999. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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