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#! rnews 1667 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!mel.hargray.com!usenet From: Joe Beiter <jwb@cosmic.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DELL Latitude XPi Laptop.. Can't install. Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 11:47:14 +0000 Organization: InterStar corp. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <314BFBC2.41C67EA6@cosmic.org> References: <314B1A05.41C67EA6@cosmic.org> <4ig5na$49n@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: xioa.cosmic.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Marat Fayzullin wrote: > > Joe Beiter (jwb@cosmic.org) wrote: > : Can anyone tell me why the freebsd (install) kernel won't boot on > : this Dell Laptop? It is dog slow in searching out the devices and then > : when it gets to identifying the hard disk it dies completely and the > : screen goes black. > : 1.something GB IDE disk > : Future Domain SCSI (docking station) > Which hard disk does it hang on? I would try turning off all the unnecessary > devices, BTW [boot with -c and then type "visual"] > Yes I disabled all unnecessary devices and got rid of all conflicts. This is what gets displayed at hang time: ------------ wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <IBM-DPRA-21215> wd0: 1160MB (2376864 sectors), 2358 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S ------------ then it sits there for about 5 minutes and then the screen blacks out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. - JoeB