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From: wilker@math.purdue.edu (Clarence W. Wilkerson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: 2.1.0 Install problems
Date: 29 Nov 1995 01:03:40 GMT
Organization: "Purdue University Department of Mathematics"
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Bcc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: wilker

Several attempts at an install have failed, all with a failure to reboot
after download 100's of megabytes. The partition is there, and when I 
mount it with the fixit disk, there is a kernel in the root directory.
Following the alternate screen shows no error messages at any stage of
installation.

When I try to boot using the booteasy bootmanager, it will give
me the same lines as the boot floppy, but then hangs with a
single "|".  It lists the default boot line as "wd(1,a)/kernel" .

Details: 100mhzDX4,  VLB Promise 2300 IDE controller
Trying to set up a second drive ( MAxtor 546 ).

I overrode the autodetected disk params to be
1023/16/63  in the CMOS set up, and in the disk geometry part
of the partition program.
Thanks for any help. I'm getting frustrated.

-- 
Clarence Wilkerson      \ HomePage:     http://www.math.purdue.edu/~wilker 
Prof. of Math. (topology)\ Internet:    wilker@math.purdue.edu
Dept. of Mathematics      \ Messages:   (317) 494-1903, FAX 494-0548
Purdue University,         \ Office:    (317) 494-1955 (voice)
W. Lafayette, Indiana 47907 \            Rm. 738 Math. Sci. Bldng.