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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!informatik.uni-bremen.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installation hangs after hardware probes (2.1R) Date: 15 Jun 1996 18:40:03 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4pv023$84e@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4pm69j$62c@muenchen.photogrammetrie.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E mehldau@photogrammetrie.de (Gerhard Mehldau) wrote: > I'm trying to install 2.1R on a Compaq DeskPro 386/25M with > 8MB RAM, an Adaptec SCSI controller, a 500MB hard drive, and > a WD8003 ethernet card. When booting from the boot floppy, > all the hardware seems to be recognized correctly, but the > installation hangs after the last probe (npx0 at 0xf0-0xff > irq 13 on motherboard). That's the point where the root file system is about to be configured and mounted. Which floppy controller is there in the Compaq? Any chance to disable it and use a separate controller? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)