Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 11:12:15 -0400 (EDT) From: John Zollo <jzollo@idt.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting freeze while loading kernel Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980916110322.515A-100000@u3.farm.idt.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809132305340.1111-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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It's an old Gateway 2000 486DX33 (they use microntics motherboards) that I upgraded to a Pentium overdrive 83 MHz. I don't mind wiping clean and re-installing, but I have a strange feeling it's not going to work. I've used the same drive for windows95, and I never had any bad sectors. I ran a surface test in windoze before I installed FreeBSD. If it's a disk problem then I can rename the current kernel to another name, and change the generic one as my kernel. If one of the kernels is corrupt, I doubt the other one will be as well. I'll try re-installing, but I'm doubtful... thanks for your help! john On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, John Zollo wrote: > > > > > I sucessfully installed FreeBSD 2.2.7 off a dos partition using a > > boot floppy -- so I know the kernel on the boot floppy works fine. After > > rebooting, the boot manager displays the "boot:" prompt, and I hit enter. > > The kernel starts to load, and the first slash starts to twirl. After > > twirling for a few seconds it freezes -- and that's it. It stops at the > > first spinning slash. I tried the debug and verbose options at the boot: > > prompt, but it never gets to the point where they would be useful. What > > should I do? > > What brand/model/proccessor do you have? > > Have you tried wiping clean and reinstalling? It could be a disk error. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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