Re: 4.x Installation failure - White Stripes on initial boot.

2004-07-18 Thread Ron McCy
Toomas Aas wrote:
Hi!
 

 Computer: SpaceWalker-Pentium III.800mHz, 256MB, 20GB
 hd running FreeBSD 4.8 as the only operating system.
 Goal: Non graphical work stattion - possible Samba
 server.
After an minimal installation the system "freezes"
shortly after passing the boot manager and the monitor
shows several long, white vertical stripes that
resemble bar codes. The system is unresponsive and has
to be forced to cold boot.  
   

Does this also happen when you boot to single user mode?
If it does, then I'm not sure what's wrong - sounds like some hardware 
incompatibility. Maybe someone can tell after seeing the dmesg.

If it doesn't then I'm curious exactly what kind of install did you do? 
What distributions did you choose to install? It may be worth to 
install only the bare minimum at first and later add everything else 
via ports/packages - that's what I usually do.
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I tried installing the MINIMAL installation with 4.9 and 4.8. The thing 
dies so quickly- shortly
afterh the boot manager completes -  I don't get a boot option as with 
my other FreeBSD
computers. My only hope in figuring this our via dmesg is through a 
trial installation I did with
SuSe Linux...which works fine.

Thanks
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Re: 4.x Installation failure - White Stripes on initial boot.

2004-07-18 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi!

>   Computer: SpaceWalker-Pentium III.800mHz, 256MB, 20GB
>   hd running FreeBSD 4.8 as the only operating system.
>   Goal: Non graphical work stattion - possible Samba
>   server.
> 
> After an minimal installation the system "freezes"
> shortly after passing the boot manager and the monitor
> shows several long, white vertical stripes that
> resemble bar codes. The system is unresponsive and has
> to be forced to cold boot.  

Does this also happen when you boot to single user mode?

If it does, then I'm not sure what's wrong - sounds like some hardware 
incompatibility. Maybe someone can tell after seeing the dmesg.

If it doesn't then I'm curious exactly what kind of install did you do? 
What distributions did you choose to install? It may be worth to 
install only the bare minimum at first and later add everything else 
via ports/packages - that's what I usually do.
--
Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/
* Money is the root of all evil.  For more info send $39

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