Re: Installation problem on AMD64

2011-02-22 Thread Jim Trigg
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Jim Trigg jtr...@spamcop.net wrote: I do an installation from DVD on AMD64, and when I reboot it hangs before displaying anything from the standard boot loader.  How can I debug this? I found my problem by accident -- I had a badly formatted USB stick

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-24 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Monday 23 August 2010 15:01:22 Mubeesh ali wrote: Hi, In my case(stuck at bios splash after freebsd install) ,i had to give it to acer support ,as i risked losing warranty if i opened/dismantled my laptop. They have diagnosed harddrive to be faulty(the laptop is hardly 15 days old

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-23 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:05:39 -0400, Derek Schwartz derekschwart...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I don't have a memory stick, but I do have other hard drives, should I try it on the other HD's??? Have you been lucky to successfully boot from CD / DVD (1st question) and install FreeBSD onto the hard

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-23 Thread Mubeesh ali
Hi, In my case(stuck at bios splash after freebsd install) ,i had to give it to acer support ,as i risked losing warranty if i opened/dismantled my laptop. They have diagnosed harddrive to be faulty(the laptop is hardly 15 days old :-( ). The lappy was running ubuntu and fedora fine. Hope

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 01:01:08AM -0400, Derek Schwartz wrote: Hey, I'm trying to install the latest release of FreeBSD on my Dell Desktop, the computer originally had windows XP, but then the hard drive was wiped clean. I tried reconfiguring the geometry of the hard drive by using my Linux

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-19 Thread Polytropon
//* I've re-included the list, hope that's okay. On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:15:13 -0400, Derek Schwartz derekschwart...@gmail.com wrote: I re-formated the drive and it still gives me the same error error {0-01} You don't need to format anything. Just make sure all kinds of partitions are removed.

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-19 Thread Polytropon
//* I've re-included the list, hope that's okay. On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:02:25 -0400, Derek Schwartz derekschwart...@gmail.com wrote: as soon as a I put the cd in the computer for the first time. Please try to avoid top-posting, as it counts as bad style on this maining list; thank you. If the

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-19 Thread Mubeesh ali
Hi , not sure.This sounds like my issue as well ? After install of bsd on a laptop with ubuntu ;it does not boot and gets stuck in bios splash . I had emailed on this earlier. thanks, Mubeesh On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: //* I've re-included the list,

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:58:44 -0400, Derek Schwartz derekschwart...@gmail.com wrote: hmmm... I've tried the full install... maybe I'll try the boot only CD... Basically, that shouldn't make any difference. I usually use the full install (1 CD) when building a system from scratch intendedly.

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:35:42 +0530, Mubeesh ali mubeeshal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi , not sure.This sounds like my issue as well ? After install of bsd on a laptop with ubuntu ;it does not boot and gets stuck in bios splash . I had emailed on this earlier. Yes, the verbosity of the error

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-18 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:01:08 -0400, Derek Schwartz derekschwart...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I'm trying to install the latest release of FreeBSD on my Dell Desktop, the computer originally had windows XP, but then the hard drive was wiped clean. I tried reconfiguring the geometry of the hard

Re: installation problem

2010-04-16 Thread Антон Клесс
I guess I have the same problem. I trying to install 7.2-RELEASE on server with Supermicro X8DTU-Fhttp://market.yandex.ru/model.xml?modelid=4633058MB. BIOS is the newest. Just in time I boot from CD I get such errors after detecting CPU: acd0: TIMEOUT - READ_BIG retrying (1 retry left) acd0:

Re: installation problem

2010-04-13 Thread Richard DeLaurell
I cannot tell for sure, but the installation seems to be failing at the point where it must install/read from the cdrom; is that correct? If so, it may be that your cdrom drive has a DMA conflict; I believe that Toshiba ATAPI drives have such problems. Provided you have a broadband connection,

Re: installation problem

2010-04-13 Thread Fbsd1
Александров Иван wrote: Hellow,my name is Ivan,i have installation problem configuration: intel seleron Dual-core e3300 2.5/800/1mb BOX LGA775 BX80571E3300 ASUS P5KPL-AM SE Soket 775/iG31/DDR II/PCI-Ex16/Video/mAXT DDR II 1024Mb PC-6400,800MHz Crucial (Micron) 160Gb Hitachi

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-31 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Joel Hatton wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:46:44 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Rakhesh is correct. SATA / PATA drives show up under ad[m]s[n][l], where m is the disk number (zero based), n is the slice, aka partition number in the non-BSD (/Solaris?) world, number (zero based), and l is the

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 30/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Terrence Wilson wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD as part of a dual boot config on a hard disk

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 08:31:09AM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Terrence Wilson wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD as part of a dual boot config on a

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-30 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Terrence Wilson wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD as part of a dual boot config on a hard disk which already contains Windows XP. I have created a partition for FreeBSD. My problem comes once I commit to the installation of FreeBSD. I get the following message, after

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 30/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Terrence Wilson wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD as part of a dual boot config on a hard disk which already contains Windows XP. I have created a partition for FreeBSD. My problem comes once I commit to the

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-30 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Terrence Wilson wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD as part of a dual boot config on a hard disk which already contains Windows XP. I have created a partition for

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/07/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Terrence Wilson wrote: I'm trying to install FreeBSD as part of a dual boot config on a hard disk which already contains Windows XP. I have

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-30 Thread Joel Hatton
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:46:44 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Rakhesh is correct. SATA / PATA drives show up under ad[m]s[n][l], where m is the disk number (zero based), n is the slice, aka partition number in the non-BSD (/Solaris?) world, number (zero based), and l is the respective letter

Re: Installation problem

2007-07-30 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Joel Hatton wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:46:44 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Rakhesh is correct. SATA / PATA drives show up under ad[m]s[n][l], where m is the disk number (zero based), n is the slice, aka partition number in the non-BSD (/Solaris?) world, number (zero based), and

Re: Installation Problem

2006-12-01 Thread Rachel Florentine
77- Original Message From: Tom McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just install from the FreeBSD ports tree. cd /usr/ports/net/py-ldap2 make install clean Thanks, Rachel Yahoo! Music Unlimited

Re: installation problem.

2006-06-17 Thread Nick Withers
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 01:15:38 -0700 Sadashiv Kulthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, this is problem related to Windows while trying to install new OS. I know this is BSD forum, but if anyone can help. I'll appreciate. I want to install Linux on my laptop and I am facing following problem

Re: installation problem.

2006-06-17 Thread bsd
Hello, this is problem related to Windows while trying to install new OS. I know this is BSD forum, but if anyone can help. I'll appreciate. I want to install Linux on my laptop and I am facing following problem while installing. Aftet refering to other side and by experince of others

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-11-10 Thread Jayesh Jayan
Hi, Thank you all. I did install on another machine and shifted the HDD to the old machine. Initially it didn't work. With the help of the archives and mails from you people I could solve the issue. Now it is up and running :) On 11/9/05, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vulpes Velox

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-11-08 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:58:01 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:09:05PM +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: an update to the issue. the error what i get is panic : page fault Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-11-08 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:17:02 +0530 Jayesh Jayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have already installed freebsd before and then move the HDD to that machine. Will it work ?? Provided that it has everything it needs in the kernel

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-11-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Vulpes Velox wrote: On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:58:01 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] One thing you could try is to burn a 6.0-RC1 CD and try that. Test your memory with memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/). Memtest86 does not tell you if you have bad ram. It just indicates

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Jayesh Jayan
an update to the issue. the error what i get is panic : page fault Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort On 10/25/05, Jayesh Jayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having problem with installing freebsd on my old HP

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Jayesh Jayan
I am installing freebsd on this machine for the first time. Anyhow i have installed freebsd on another machine with out any problem which has AMD athlon 2.8 GHz, 256 MB DDR ram, 40 GB SEAGATE HDD. I just wanted to use this machine as my gateway machine which will not have any monitor or so

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:09:05PM +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote: an update to the issue. the error what i get is panic : page fault Cannnot Dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Without knowing which program produces the fault,

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Jayesh Jayan
Hi, If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have already installed freebsd before and then move the HDD to that machine. Will it work ?? This is what happens when I try to install freebsd on the machine I can go till the step of Choosing distribution After I choose the

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jayesh Jayan wrote: If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have already installed freebsd before and then move the HDD to that machine. Will it work ?? Yes, probably, that's definitely a decent idea and worth a try. This is what happens when I try to install freebsd on

Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4

2005-10-25 Thread Jayesh Jayan
Thank you I will try it out and let you know the output :) But it is not a proper thing to do . anyhow will give it a try On 10/25/05, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jayesh Jayan wrote: If i install FreeBSD on to a HDD with a good machine where i have already

Re: Installation problem - device node

2005-10-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
peter bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to install freebsd on a computer with 2 hard disks. This message comes up when it tries to start creating the file system: Unable to find device node for /dev/X in /dev. Install then fails. That kind of depends on what X is. If you mean

Re: Installation problem/question -- duplicate sent to support@freebsdmall

2004-11-10 Thread Nelis Lamprecht
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:05:06 -0600, Jeff Hobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a machine running win 2000. I want to completely convert the machine to FreeBSD (not run anything else), I boot from the 5.2 cd and choose use all the disk and choose automatic to have the system decide what to

RE: Installation problem/question -- duplicate sent tosupport@freebsdmall

2004-11-10 Thread Subhro
Well this is really odd, But what you can try to do is, not go for the automatic install. Instead first manually clean up the slices (partitions whatever) and then go back to the automatic install. Although personally, I would anyday prefer a custom install than a default one. Regards S. Subhro

Re: installation problem with AMD CPU and Board

2004-01-18 Thread Jorn Argelo
Hi Everybody , I want to install FreeBSD 4.9 or 4.9 but after installation finished then system try to boot again after reset but it's delayed on this sentence. ** Agp0: AMD 762 host to AGP bridge mem 0xf430-0xf4300,0xf800-0xfbff id device 0.0 on pci0 ** But is

Re: Installation problem

2003-11-08 Thread Luke Kearney
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 07:39:01 +0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] granted us these pearls of wisdom: When I try to boot from CD-ROM to install my FreeBSD 4.6 my computer stops to work. I do: 1) Booting from CD-ROM 2) Skip kernel configuration. 3) Then I see: [...something before...] plip0:PLIP network

Re: Installation Problem.

2003-10-19 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 08:27:31AM -0500, Greg Jarman wrote: I downloaded the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp. I then start the boot process. I trying to run on either a Compaq Proliant 360 or Dell PowerEdge. The kern.flp diskette loads fine, then I exchange diskettes and the mfsroot goes

Re: Installation problem

2003-09-10 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [10/09/03 14:13]: First and foremost i'm new to using FreeBSD, so forgive the newbie cry for help. But I do have experience on Linux, so know my way about a *nux environment. I moved from Linux to FreeBSD a while ago. There's some finer things that aren't

Re: Installation problem

2003-09-10 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
James wrote: Hello, First and foremost i'm new to using FreeBSD, so forgive the newbie cry for help. But I do have experience on Linux, so know my way about a *nux environment. I'm currently trying to install version 5.0-CURRENT, my problem is that when I boot off of the CDROM, it starts loading

Re: Installation problem. kernel not getting copied to / directory

2003-07-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
prasad chandrasekaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to install freebsd 4.7 on my pentium 2 machine standalone machine. The problem is it show 7 conflicts in kernel configuration under network. Since I have no network card I disable every conflict by pressing del key. You probably

Re: Installation Problem.

2003-03-28 Thread taxman
On Friday 28 March 2003 02:25 pm, Paul Smith. wrote: My computer freezes when booting from the install CD at, acpi_cpu: CPU throttling enabled, 8 steps from 100% to 12.5% then you probably want to try 4.7-Release instead. See: http://www.mired.org/5.0-not-production.html Good luck, Tim

Re: Installation Problem

2003-01-02 Thread Marcel Stangenberger
I have tried many times to install the current FreeBSD release (4.7) but am having a problem. Everything works fine until I select CD/DVD for the media, when the Installation tells me that my CD seems more like an Audio Disc than a FreeBSD install disc. The problem with this is that it