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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!psgrain!iafrica.com!ticsa.com!cstatd.cstat.co.za!ucthpx!titan.cs.uct.ac.za!eap From: eap@cs.uct.ac.za (Elizabeth Post) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't get FreeBSD to Boot! Date: 20 Oct 1995 06:14:08 GMT Organization: University of Cape Town Lines: 44 Message-ID: <467eng$pkk@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> References: <42vcre$664@nntp.interaccess.com> <461t1a$oce@tetsuo.communique.net> <463e4a$lat@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.cs.uct.ac.za I don't know if it will help, and I don't know if it is the answer, but when I first tried to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 on my 386 DX with 8 Mb I had the same symptons with the boot floppy, or it would start and then hang. When I fiddled with the CMOS settings and changed the cache setting (can't remember what to) everything started working OK. In <463e4a$lat@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> schlacjs@lab35.cs.purdue.edu (Jason Schlachet) writes: >Jim King (jim.king@mail.sstar.com) wrote: >: january@thymaster.interaccess.com (January) wrote: >: >*grr* this is an annoying problem. I just installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 onto my >: >hard disk. Problem is, it won't boot. If I hit enter at the Boot: prompt, >: >all that happens is >: >| >: >sits in the corner of the screen -- doesn't spin or anything. I've tried >: >booting with a bootdisk and pointing it to wd(0,a)/kernel, but that >: >didn't work either. >: >Could it be because this is on a 1.2G EIDE drive (with an EIDE >: >controller, of course), and the FreeBSD partition starts above 1024 cyl? >: I get the same thing. I've tried installing on the second partition >: of a 1.6 GB EIDE drive, and as the sole partition on a 540 MB EIDE >: drive - same results as yours both times. >I get that exact same behavior on my 486dx2/66 (8mg ram) with both my >420mb and 275mb ide drives (on a vlb controller) >Has anybody come up with any hints/fixes for this? >Jason >-- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "For millions of years, Mankind lived just like the animals. Then something > happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk." > -- Pink Floyd, "Keep Talking" from Division Bell KE6UUU >----------------------------------------------------------- Jason S Schlachet -- Elizabeth Post eap@cs.uct.ac.za Department of Computer Science University of Cape Town Private Bag, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa