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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.bugs:2975 comp.os.386bsd.questions:16490 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!usenet From: awd@gslis.utexas.edu (Andrew W. Donoho) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD2.0R: Boot floppy PANICs on Dell 486P/50 Date: 3 Feb 1995 19:39:49 GMT Organization: UT-Austin, Graduate School of Library and Information Science Lines: 17 Sender: awd@fiat.gslis.utexas.edu Message-ID: <3gu0q5$6t3@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> References: <3gtshm$nos@Mars.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip-1-3.ots.utexas.edu X-Posted-From: InterNews 1.0.4@slip-1-3.ots.utexas.edu X-Authenticated: awd on POP host fiat.gslis.utexas.edu In article <3gtshm$nos@Mars.mcs.com> mikebo@MCS.COM (Michael Borowiec) writes: > Hi - > I'm having a problem booting a Dell 486P/50 (486DX2/50) w/16MB memory, > Adaptec 1542CF (IRQ 11, DMA 5), Quantum LPS525S SCSI disk (501MB) and > 3COM 3C509 (EtherLink III) from the FreeBSD 2.0R (941204) boot floppy. > It sees all the devices, but after the "Changing root device to fd0c" > message, it craps out with: I had a similar problem. I did two things to get going. 1st. Get the December 5th Boot Disks. 2nd. specify the "link2" option to the ep0 ethernet driver. Andrew Donoho awd@ddg.com awd@gslis.utexas.edu