From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 21 18:28:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA03495 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 18:28:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from uclink4.berkeley.edu (uclink4.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.155.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA03490 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 18:28:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from uclink.berkeley.edu (uclink.berkeley.edu [128.32.155.3]) by uclink4.berkeley.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA30219 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 18:10:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from u16-243.UNEX.Berkeley.EDU (u16-243.UNEX.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.16.243]) by uclink.berkeley.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA14643 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 18:05:21 -0800 Message-ID: <33333ED9.24DE@unx.berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 18:07:21 -0800 From: John Kelly Reply-To: jmk@unx.berkeley.edu Organization: UC Extension, Berkeley X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: New install of 2.2 won't boot Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have been trying to get FreeBSD 2.2 working on an Intel 486/66, (NICE EISA m/b w/ 16MB RAM, Adaptec 2742 SCSI controller, Seagate ST3550N hard drive (435 MB), 3Com 3C509 Ethernet card, no mouse, VGA display, std keyboard). I have trimmed down the drivers list to just those devices, and have tried swapping out the VGA adapter. The floppy installation program has not trouble finding the SCSI controller. 2.2 installs very happily from the floppy, and walks me through the novice configuration. I tell it to use the whole disk for FreeBSD and make the partition bootable; I use the Automatic volume setup, etc. (trying to make it as pure and generic as possible). The installation program gets the files from freeBSD.org, etc., reboots, and then: >>FreeBSD BOOT @0x10000: 640/15360k of memory Usage [[[0:][wd](0,a)]/kernel][-abcCdghrsv] Use 1:sd(0,a)kernel to boot sd0 if it is BIOS drive 1 Use ? for file list or press Enter for defaults Boot: dosdev= 80, biosdrive= 0, unit= 0, maj= 0 Can't find kernel It repeats the last three lines forever, though it pauses if I try typing in something after the "Boot:" prompt. I have not yet found the magic word to get past the prompt (assuming there is one). The only reason I can suspect is that the BIOS does not know, until the SCSI adapter wakes up, that it has a hard disk attached. Still, the adapter is fully awake--else there wouldn't be enough FreeBSD around to complain about not finding its kernel. Advice, sympathy, and dumb jokes will all be appreciated. Thanks. --John Kelly jkelly@uclink.berkeley.edu