Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
My PC Hardware is as follows :
Intel Pentium pro .
128K Ram,
npx0 : math processor
PCI Bus
ATI Mach64-GZ graphics accelerator
Intel PIIX4ATA33 Controller
USD Controller
4G disk
2 3COM 3C90 Network Cards
CD - ROM
USB Keyboard / Mouse
The interrupts are as follows :
1 Keyboard
3 and 4 Serial Ports
5 and 10 3Com Network Cards
9 USB Controller
11 Graphics Card
12 Mouse
14 15 IDE hard disk
The PC boots and displays the Devices and interrupt list :
IDE Controller 14/15
Serial Bus controller 9
N/W controller 5
N/W controller 10
display console 11
it then tries to boot off CD - fail (No CD in)
it then performs another hard reset (I think when trying to boot of Hard
Drive)
I have tried to install FreeBSD onto a 2G Partition.
I have played around with the Kernel configuration but it still resets at
same point
even when I don't delete any drivers and don't perform Kernel
Configuration!!!
Through the Fixit CD , I performed a Disklabel . Here are the results :
bytes / sector :512
sectors / track :63
tracks / cylinders:255
sectors / cylinder:16065
cylinders : 259
sectors / unit : 4768387
8 partitions :
sizeoffset fstype fsize bsize
-
a 262144 0 4.2BSD 204894
b 1017008 262144 swap
c 4176837 0 unused
e 524288 1279152 4.2BSD 204816384
f 524288 1803440 4.2BSD 204816384
g 1849109 2327728 4.2BSD 204816384
But I notice there is no /etc/fstab file.
Hope this helps!!
Pat
-Original Message-
From: Vulpes Velox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 20 February 2004 19:00
To: Pat Saunders
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: freebsd not boot
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:21:43 -
Pat Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to run freebsd 4.9 on a PC / IDE architecture.
I have one IDE drive and two 3COM 3c90 Network Cards and CD-ROM
The PC will be a dedicated FreeBSD box.
I have installed freebsd v4.9 , using the whole 4G disk which is
bootable and installed
'Standard MBR - no boot manager' and disabled all the drivers (SCSI)
that I do not use.
The problem is when I reboot nothing happens apart from another hard
reset. The PC then does a Hard reset and the same recursive process
occurs again. No, useful messages appear at all !!!
I have created bootable floppies which I can boot from but I am not
sure what to perform
next , apart from re-install with different options which result in
the same depressing results.
I am not sure what to do regarding the 'Fixit' option as most shell
commands do not
work.
Any help would be appreciated.
Pat
Well more info on the hardware would be useful...
How far does it get befor it reboots?
Given that you went throught removing all the scsi drivers, I am
guessing this means you made a custom kernel config, could you post
that too.
It sounds sorta like something important got removed from the kernel
or something...
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