Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.u.washington.edu!lliu From: lliu@u.washington.edu (L. Liu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD 2.1 installation: boot failure! Date: 11 Jan 1996 22:42:02 GMT Organization: University of Washington Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4d43nq$ceq@nntp5.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: homer17.u.washington.edu NNTP-Posting-User: lliu I tried to install FreeBSD 2.1 on my pc. I made a boot floppy, but the system hangs when booting. (The floppy is good. I tried it on another 386 system and no problem.) The problem happens after the "uncompress kernel" message. I saw the message "CPU:", but there is no CPU type reported. Then, there seemed to be some error messages. But the screen went blank so quickly that I can't read the messages. Is it a problem related to detecting the CPU? The following is my pc's configuration: PCI Pentium-75 MB, 256KB burst pipeline cache, 16MB DRAM, Triton chip set, Award BIOS. Conner EIDE 840MB HD (onboard EIDE controller) ATI Mach 64 graphic card, 2MB DRAM Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI card Mitsumi 2X CDROM drive with its only interface card TB Tropez soundcard Could anyone help me on this? Thank you very much. Eugene Liu