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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!dove!cme!sparky.eeel.nist.gov From: chandler@sparky.eeel.nist.gov (Joseph W. Chandler, II) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Gateway P5-60 an FreeBSD Message-ID: <72635.chandler@sparky.eeel.nist.gov> Date: 14 Mar 94 22:04:41 GMT Sender: news@cme.nist.gov Lines: 11 Nntp-Posting-Host: pcwatt1.eeel.nist.gov X-Minuet-Version: Minuet1.0_Beta_14.1 X-POPMail-Charset: English I have been trying to install FreeBSD on my Gateway P5-60 and I can boot from floppy and the system hangs at "changing root device to fd0a", the point after device recognition in the boot sequence. All devices seem to check out OK. I tried the boot from cdrom w/one floppy method and from 3 floppies only. The cdrom is dated December 1993. Can anyone advise me here? NAME: Joseph W. Chandler, II (Joe) USMAIL: NIST (formerly NBS) VOICE: (301) 975-2868 Room B-344, Bldg 220 INTERNET: chandler@eeel.nist.gov Gaithersburg, MD 20899 FAX: (301) 926-3972