On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 01:37:16PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > This sometimes can happen :( However, to avoid hungs - boot with -c option > and in visual configure mode disable all devices which you doesn't have.
I should have mentioned that I did that already. The installation disk lets you enter into this mode anyway, so there is no need for the -c option or am I wrong? > > Maxim > > Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > I took a 3.0 kernel #3 floppy and tried to install 3.0 on two systems > > and both failed: > > > > 1. System: > > > > PCB Motherboard , Amd 386/40, Cyrix FasMath (w/ or w/o) > > 8 MB, IDE IBM DHEA 38451 (16384/16/63) > > > > The most I could achieve was booting up into blue install screen > > mode but got hung during probing devices (only NE2000, VGA and IDE > > controller present, nothing fancy). > > > > 2. System > > > > ASUS P55T2P4, same HD, but also SCSI disks and a Syquest removable > > medium. P5/200, 128 MB, xl0 network device. > > > > Symptoms: > > > > at boot: prompt there is a long beep (for a second or so) > > > > finds xl0, SCSI disks but wdc0 and wdc1 are not found !. > > (although the HD is there in the BIOS) > > > > Comes up into install mode, but when choosing custom->partition > > there are No disks found. > > > > > > -- > > Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies k...@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies k...@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
