-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Darryl Hoar Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:14 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 5.4-release install problem
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bryan Maynard Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 4:39 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4-release install problem On Thursday 04 August 2005 02:33 pm, Darryl Hoar wrote: >Greetings, >I downloaded the 5.4-release iso images from the freebsd website. >I used my windows machine and Nero to burn the iso images to >cd's. > >I have an old machine that I am trying to install 5.4-release on. >It is a PII 333, SCSI with 30GB scsi hard drive. > >I place cd 1 in the drive (disk 1 iso) and reboot the machine. >When it boots, it looks to the cdrom drive as the first boot device. >When it does, my screen is full of scrolling text which looks like >dump info. It scrolls on and on. If the text starts grey, then switches to white, then turns grey again that's FreeBSD booting. After a little bit sysinstall should load. sysinstall is the utility used to install FreeBSD. >Any ideas on the problem ? >So far it doesn't sound like anything is wrong. Have you read the >handbook at: >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html ? >thanks, >Darryl >Bryan ><snip> >Well, >I went and tried to look at the scrolling text. It had several columsn >with "in" "err" "ef1" "cip". Their is a line that says: >BTX Halted. >ss:esp= >I'm pretty sure this is not the normal boot process. I'll look at the >handbook as suggested. >-Darryl Checked the handbook and nothing really relevant to this problem. Also, this machine is currently running 5.1-release, so I know the hardware is good. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
