Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:29:53 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: rupp@coredump.at Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install problem on AS200 4/166 Message-ID: <15374.40929.938605.806598@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20011205215857.470.qmail@cassandra.coredump.at> References: <15374.40002.476399.463472@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20011205215857.470.qmail@cassandra.coredump.at>
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rupp@coredump.at writes: > > > If you mean "for text output", I don't understand. When I boot > > > into the installation, it works, the kernel boots, and it comes to > > > copying files. If I could not use TGA in any case, it should not work > > > that far - should it? > > > > It depends what you mean by "copying files" > > After all preliminary setup is done, the setup program starts to > retrieve the distribution sets, extracts them and writes the actual > files onto the disk. Sometime during this process, usually after > several minutes, and never at the same point, the machine freezes. > > It's like the input was suddenly shut of with a valve. > "extracting file - extracting file - ex..[dead]" > > > Have you actually done 'set console serial' at the >>> prompt, booted > > FreeBSD, and started the installation purely on the serial console? > Yes, then power cylce, and yes, purely on the serial console. Sorry, then. I have no clue. Sounds like a hardware problem. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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