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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!comp.vuw.ac.nz!central.co.nz!usenet From: Jane <jane@paradigm.co.nz> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: help for new boot of 2.0.5 Date: 1 Dec 1995 02:06:33 GMT Organization: Paradigm Technology Lines: 39 Message-ID: <49lnv9$f2f@central.co.nz> References: <48ducm$ote@thrush.sover.net> <48en2k$b97@atlas.uniserve.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jane.paradigm.co.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) wrote: >In article <48ducm$ote@thrush.sover.net>, woody@sover.netl says... >> >>Help I'v tried booting freebsd off of the boot floppy I'v made but the >>system hangs. I'v got version 1.1.5.1 already on my drive and have had >>it running. Now when I try to boot version 2.0.5 off of boot floppy >>it goes like this >>Boot >> >>Uncompressing the kernal......done >>Booting the kernal >>this is where it freezes up I'v waited for 10 minuetes and still no >>boot any body out there can help me???? > > > Try disabling your system cache via CMOS setup. > >Tom > I have had a similar problem. BSD would get up to testing the memory, and then reboot, unless the external cache was turned off. I have a 486 which has had some problems in the past - it occasionally reboots or hangs, seemingly at random. When disabling the cache allowed freeBSD to boot, I thought that I had found the problem with the machine. Obviously, however, the cache does not have to be bad to prevent BSD from booting. Could someone please detail this BSD problem to me, and is there a better solution than turning off the cache? Thanks. -- Jane Nicholson Paradigm Technology Ltd. (all required disclaimers apply) Wellington, New Zealand Phone 64-4-495-1012 Fax 64-4-495-1003 email jane@paradigm.co.nz