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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!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!nmia!gallup.cia-g.com!lithium From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: boot.flp sucks!!! FreeBSD guys. Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 16:12:17 -0600 Organization: New Mexico Internet Access Lines: 31 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960616160446.21710B-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gallup.cia-g.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: aks@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com In-Reply-To: <4q08o1$jfn@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> When boot.flp boots to the prompt type "-c" for driver configuration. At the next prompt type "visual" and use the visual editor to remove all devices that you aren't using - some of them are conflicting. What type of hardware do you have? I've installed FreeBSD on some machines and the only time I saw it hang when booting the boot floppy was on a machine with an ATI Mach64 graphics card. This is caused when FreeBSD probes for COM4 - The card answers the probe (ATI's fault, not FreeBSD) in a weird way then my monitor would go clear and go into power saving mode. On that machine I disabled the com ports, booted, took out probing for COM4 in /sys/i386/isa/sio.c (I think that's it) then recompiled the kernel. Again, you're better off calmly asking about and explaining your problem and not giving up saying it sucks. On 15 Jun 1996 aks@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com wrote: > I created boot flopy as it is explained on www.freebsd.org. My machine > simply hangs!!! Don't tell me that my flopy is busted, or I don't have enough > memory. I can't get boot prompt?!. That really sucks. I guess I'll get Caldera - Steve - Systems Manager - Community Internet Access - http://www.cia-g.com