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#! rnews 1565 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!cs.umd.edu!info.usuhs.mil!hq.hq.af.mil!news From: boline@dsaagate.osd.mil (Wayne Boline) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5 install dies on boot Date: 11 Jul 1995 15:12:08 GMT Organization: DSAA Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3tu4c8$136@hq.hq.af.mil> References: <3treue$957@hq.hq.af.mil> <3tskbp$jsm@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: englishacgn.comm.osd.mil Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.14 In article <3tskbp$jsm@agate.berkeley.edu>, jkh@violet.berkeley.edu says... > >In article <3treue$957@hq.hq.af.mil>, Wayne Boline <jayhawk@mnsinc.com> wrote: >>I have recently purchased the FreeBSD 2.0.5 CD from Walnut Creek CD-ROM. >>I tried to install but during the boot from the FreeBSD boot disk the >>computer reboots about 3 seconds after I hit enter to start with a >>default boot. Prior to getting 2.0.5 I had messed with installing 2.0 and > >Can you describe the failure in more detail? Have you also tried booting >with `-c' and disabling all the devices you don't need, as per the >troubleshooting info section of the hardware guide? > > Jordan > I recreated the boot disk with the image from ftp.cdrom.com and it worked fine. There wasn't much more detail to tell. It just rebooted about 3 seconds into the boot while the bar was spinning. I didn't try the -c option. I have it installed now so thanks for the reply. Wayne