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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: mike.long@analog.com (Mike Long) Newsgroups: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD install problems on Gateway2000 DX66V Date: 20 Oct 1993 08:56:55 -0500 Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway Lines: 39 Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Message-ID: <9310201356.AA10565@cthulhu> References: <9310200704.AA05917@netcom2.netcom.com> Reply-To: Mike Long <Mike.Long@analog.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu >Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 00:04:37 -0700 >From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) >Newsgroups: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000,comp.os.386bsd.questions > >In article <9310120705.AA01452@cthulhu> you write: >>I think my hardware is giving FreeBSD fits! Has anyone gotten FreeBSD >>(or NetBSD or plain 386bsd) to work on hardware like the following: > >At what point does it stop responding? Please cc your reply to >freeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com so others can see. >Thanks. >-AM I tried installation first with internal and external CPU caches on, and it hung on the first "Do you want to install FreeBSD (y/n)" question, after I put in the filesystem-floppy. It may also have hung immediately after printing the initial banner, where you get an opportunity to give it another kernel name, but I'm not so sure on that one. I tried again with the External CPU cache off and the Internal cache on. No luck this way either. When I turned both caches off, I managed to get all the way through the install process, reboot, fsck cleans up filesystem, reboot, get login: prompt. The machine would ALWAYS hang at this point. I repeated the process, hitting my machine's Reset button on each reboot even though I don't have an Ethernet card, but no luck there either. I gave up at that point. Even if I had been able to log in I would have dumped the system, because I don't consider running my machine with caches off a viable option. FYI, I am now running NetBSD without any problems whatsoever, aside from my own cluelessness. :) I still haven't gotten mail to work... -- Mike Long Mike.Long@Analog.com VLSI Design Engineer voice: (617)461-4030 Analog Devices, SPD Div. FAX: (617)461-3010 Norwood, MA 02062 *this = !opinion(Analog);