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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!jagane From: jagane@netcom.com (Jagane D Sundar) Subject: Help with Pentium 90, Bt946C, install .... Message-ID: <jaganeCsyx62.4Fo@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 06:10:49 GMT Lines: 30 It's been a while since I dropped out of the 386BSD scene and I got around to trying FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 on my brand new Pentium machine last week. Config as follows, Micron Pentium 90 w 32 MB RAM Bustek 946C SCSI PCI card w/ Conner 1 GIG drive Matrox PCI Graphics. Here's what happens, The boot floppy loads the kernel, and asks for the FS floppy. Once I have the FS floppy in, the kernel detects all the hardware then says its trying to change root device to fd0a. That is the last I hear from the kernel. The kernel is frozen. Arrrggghhh!!!!! Here are the things I have tried,, - All PCI peripherals( Serial Parallel IDE diabled)). - New Floppy conroller on ISA bus(instead of PCI one on MB). - External cache disabled. - Different keyboard.. Well, does anybody know what magic mantras I have to chant to get FreeBSD on my system?. Thanks, Jagane