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From: anindya@bastard.net (AC)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Everex 386 and boot problems
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 03:45:43 GMT
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
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On 11 Jun 1997 04:13:58 GMT, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp.
(Kazutaka YOKOTA) wrote:

>
>Would you describe your video card, keyboard and mouse (if any)?
>Does the box have any interface cards installed?
>
>Kazu

Standard VGA card, keyboard, and mouse (although not connected). I put
in an Allied Telesys NIC to try the install over ftp, but as I said,
it hung. I then tried the -c option and told it what IO port and IRQ
to use for the NIC. Still hung after zp0. Ok, so I removed the
card entirely, did the -c option and removed *everything* I didn't
need -- a minimal configuration. Still hung. I have been thinking
that maybe the problem might have to do with the math-coprocessor?
On some older Linux distributions, if you had a co-processor
installed, and tried to boot the generic kernel (which of course has
the math-co compiled in), it would hang during install. That's a 
wild theory, though. I should also mention that Linux
booted and installed just fine. FreeBSD hangs after all
the device drivers. Strange, huh?

--Anindya