Dear Sir,
Please be kind enough to provide solution to the following problem.
I have an old, assembled desk top loaded with win7 ultimate. It has got 80
GB hard disk and 1 GB RAM. Earlier there was XP. That time CD drive was not
working at all. Subsequently I upgraded to win7. After few days
On 29 January 2013, at 20:25, d...@safeport.com wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:
On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote:
I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The
On 1/29/2013 10:25 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote:
What is the system you are using? What external devices does it have
built-in support for? In the absence of any data - how about trying an
external hard drive?
Why not remove the hard drive, use another system to put FreeBSD on the
drive, and
Doug Hardie wrote:
On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote:
I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The
bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive.
It starts the
On 30 January 2013, at 05:16, Fbsd8 wrote:
Doug Hardie wrote:
On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote:
I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The
bios will not boot from USB stick. I
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:
On 30 January 2013, at 05:16, Fbsd8 wrote:
Doug Hardie wrote:
On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote:
I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on.
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote:
I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The
bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive.
It starts the boot process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader
message with
On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote:
I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The
bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive.
It starts the boot process fine
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:
On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800
Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote:
I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The
bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD
I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The bios will
not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. It starts the boot
process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader message with revision 1.1. Then
it puts out the machine, date, time the CD was created
I encountered a situation today that I do not understand. This is a very old
i386 PC that does not have a usable CD drive. The existing drive uses a very
funky SCSI connector that I have nothing for. The system disk is SCSI and
there was one additional PATA drive used for additional storage.
At 03:34 AM 9/15/2011, Doug Hardie wrote:
I encountered a situation today that I do not understand. This is a very
old i386 PC that does not have a usable CD drive. The existing drive uses
a very funky SCSI connector that I have nothing for. The system disk is
SCSI and there was one
richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote:
Are you able to get to the FreeBSD splash screen (where you get a countdown
to startup with a menu of 6 selections)?
Yes, It doesn't go beyond that selection most of the time.
One of the choices there is boot w/o ACPI; you could try that if you get
that
I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with
absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed).
Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to
the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses
for about 15 secs and the
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan
anoop...@gmail.comwrote:
I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with
absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed).
Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to
the BTX loader
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Richard DeLaurell
richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan
anoop...@gmail.comwrote:
I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with
absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter
Are you able to get to the FreeBSD splash screen (where you get a countdown
to startup with a menu of 6 selections)?
One of the choices there is boot w/o ACPI; you could try that if you get
that far.
Good luck--
Richard
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan
I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with
absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed).
Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to
the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses
for about 15 secs and the
: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: slice/booting problem
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:12:55PM -0500, J. W. Ballantine wrote:
I have a two disk system, and I'm trying to install FBSD6.2 on slice 2
of the second disk, a configuration that I've had working in the past
I have a two disk system, and I'm trying to install FBSD6.2 on slice 2
of the second disk, a configuration that I've had working in the past.
I'm using the Standard installation, select the second disk (ad1)
and create a slice (ad1s2) and then create the partitions within
that slice. On that
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:12:55PM -0500, J. W. Ballantine wrote:
I have a two disk system, and I'm trying to install FBSD6.2 on slice 2
of the second disk, a configuration that I've had working in the past.
I'm using the Standard installation, select the second disk (ad1)
and create a
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 14:07, Winston wrote:
I tried to boot via a serial console, so I modified/added the
following config files:
---
/boot/loader.conf:
boot_multicons=YES
boot_serial=YES
console=comconsole
---
/boot.config
# wyt:
I tried to boot via a serial console, so I modified/added the
following config files:
---
/boot/loader.conf:
boot_multicons=YES
boot_serial=YES
console=comconsole
---
/boot.config
# wyt: added
-Dh
---
Changed
Witam
I got problem with installing 5.2.1 RC2 after i've changed my
MBO. Earlier I've used MSI kt4v on VIA chipset and there was no
problem. Now I got ABIT NF7-SL on nForce2 chipset and I'm
wondering what's goin' on? When I try to install fbsd,
installation stops every
Hi, I've got the same chipset in my mobo. There is
some kind of problem with ACPI, so its better to boot
without it (either disable it in bios/either choose
the right boot option).
Later on you will have some more problems with onboard
NIC and (if you have one) nvidia gfx.
Write to me if you
Good news and bad news:
Good News: System seems to have recovered. Booting into single user
mode and running fsck worked great for / and /var, but did nothing for
my /usr partition with all my data. After letting fsck run on my /usr
partition for 4 days, the raid controller appeared to stall
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:12:51 -0800
Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a summary of my problem so far:
Server was idle (e.g. absolutely no processes running aside from
csh, ttyv0 and ps) when power was cut; server reports a problem mounting
/usr partition upon reboot.
I have
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:44:46 +0200
Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:12:51 -0800
Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a summary of my problem so far:
[..]
To summarize:
1. See if you have disk activity when fsck seems to be stuck.
2. Try fsck
Please see my reply below:
Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 21:12:51 -0800
Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a summary of my problem so far:
Server was idle (e.g. absolutely no processes running aside from
csh, ttyv0 and ps) when power was cut; server reports a problem
I do not have the FIX-IT CD or another FreeBSD machine.
Is there another fellow FreeBSD'er in the Bay Area, CA that can
volunteer to help me troubleshoot the card as described below (e.g. plug
in the card and break to debugger to gather info)? I can drive over to
your place or you can come
Here's a summary of my problem so far:
Server was idle (e.g. absolutely no processes running aside from
csh, ttyv0 and ps) when power was cut; server reports a problem mounting
/usr partition upon reboot.
I have since tried the following:
(1) Booted into single-user mode and ran 'fsck' - the
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 22:35:35 -0800
Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's some questions:
If the server was idle (e.g. absolutely no processes running aside from
login shell and terminal and no disk access occurring) does it make
sense that the filesystem would have had a problem
I booted into single-user mode and ran 'fsck' - the latest output to the
terminal says:
FILE SYSTEM MARKED CLEAN
/dev/da0s1e
Last Mounted on /usr
Phase 1 - check blocks and sizes
FILE SYSTEM STILL DIRTY
Will fsck continue attempting to fix
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 01:09:22 -0800
Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I booted into single-user mode and ran 'fsck' - the latest output to the
terminal says:
FILE SYSTEM MARKED CLEAN
/dev/da0s1e
Last Mounted on /usr
Phase 1 - check blocks and sizes
Here's some questions:
If the server was idle (e.g. absolutely no processes running aside from
login shell and terminal and no disk access occurring) does it make
sense that the filesystem would have had a problem after being
improperly unmounted?
Also, how long should an 'fsck' on a 500GB
On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 19:49:50 -0800
Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm getting the following error message during startup:
/usr: mount pending error: blocks 16 files 1
I'm guessing this orrcured due to a shutdown during background fsck of
the filesystem.
Not necessarily during a
Thank you!
Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 19:49:50 -0800
Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm getting the following error message during startup:
/usr: mount pending error: blocks 16 files 1
I'm guessing this orrcured due to a shutdown during background fsck of
the
Ok, the last problem I was experiencing when the console would just
freeze while the kernel was attempting to do the nfs mount was due to a
firewall rule. At least, that's what I gathered after scrolling through
a tcpdump capture. I don't have the message handy, but it seemed to
have been
I've been experiencing a problem getting a soekris to pxe boot properly.
I've tried this with both RELENG_4_8 and RELENG_4 and it still gives
me the same problem. I've read and re-read the diskless operation, nfs,
and freebsd booting process sections in the handbook, as well as tried
to read
Are you sure that you have a kernel at /tmp ? Your config says that the
root / for this boot is really at /tmp
--Wes
On Oct 14, 2003, at 12:09 PM, Dave O wrote:
I've been experiencing a problem getting a soekris to pxe boot
properly. I've tried this with both RELENG_4_8 and RELENG_4 and it
Wes Zuber wrote:
Are you sure that you have a kernel at /tmp ? Your config says that the
root / for this boot is really at /tmp
--Wes
Yes, I've placed a stripped and gzipped kernel in both /tmp and, just to
be on the safe side, in the /tftpboot directory as well. It seems to me
that it
What about the
/tmp/conf/default/etc/fstab ?
--Wes
On Oct 14, 2003, at 12:37 PM, Dave O wrote:
Wes Zuber wrote:
Are you sure that you have a kernel at /tmp ? Your config says that
the root / for this boot is really at /tmp
--Wes
Yes, I've placed a stripped and gzipped kernel in both /tmp
Wes Zuber wrote:
What about the
/tmp/conf/default/etc/fstab ?
--Wes
Initially I didn't have anything, not even that directory created. I've
created and removed the /conf directory many times and must've confused
/conf/base with /conf/default. Re-reading diskless(8) I see that that
is
Wes Zuber wrote:
Ah, ok I don't think you can just copy /etc/ straight over without
changing a couple of things. We have our setup working but as I recall
there were many details. We had to uncover one detail at a time (like
you are doing).
Here is our rc.conf in /tmp/conf/default/etc/
# --
I recently added a new disk controller (promise ultra 133) to act as a
replacement for the motherboard's controller. I also moved everything from
the systems old hard drive to a new hard drive. All is well, except that I
can not boot any kernel other than the one specified in
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