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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!news.ci.com.au!wabbit.its.uow.edu.au!metro!metro!OzEmail!shell01.ozemail.com.au!timw From: timw@shell01.ozemail.com.au (Tim Withers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP: boot.flp not bringing up Install menu Date: 25 Mar 1996 10:26:25 GMT Organization: OzEmail Pty Ltd - Australia Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4j5sch$fik@oznet07.ozemail.com.au> References: <4ikbjo$dsa@tuba.cit.cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.ozemail.com.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I had a similar problem installing FreeBSD 2.0.5 to a Pentium 100MHz 16MB. After much hair pulling, I finally determined I had a hardware problem, even though Windoze 3.11 ran O.K. I proved the problem was hardware by putting the BIOS in 'failsafe' mode - disabled internal & external cache, non-turbo, etc. Then FreeBSD installed fine (though deadly slow). After the supplier swapped CPU's, the system ran like a dream. If you perform a manual installation (without using the installation menus), you are more likely to see installation error messages relating to hardware problems. Don't ask me how to do this - it was too long ago, and unfortunately the documentation for a manual installation is fairly sparse now that the menu based installation is so successful (for the majority). Tim Withers. Rohan Oberoi (ro11@crux4.cit.cornell.edu) wrote: <snip> : I have a Pentium 100 Mhz 64MB RAM currently running Windoze : 95. When I try to boot off boot.flp (downloaded twice and : put on disk through rawrite.exe, didn't work either time) it : starts off all right (with the Boot: prompt) but then after a : minute or so the screen goes blank. When I turn the monitor <snip> : Rohan.