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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD install problems on Gateway2000 DX66V Message-ID: <199310201530.IAA00230@corbin.rain.com> From: davidg@implode.rain.com (David Greenman) Date: 20 Oct 1993 11:08:00 -0500 Reply-To: davidg@implode.rain.com Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu Lines: 30 >I tried installation first with internal and external CPU caches on, >and it hung on the first "Do you want to install FreeBSD (y/n)" >question, after I put in the filesystem-floppy. It may also have >hung immediately after printing the initial banner, where you get an >opportunity to give it another kernel name, but I'm not so sure on >that one. Very suspicious. What kind of disk are you using? I suspect disk driver problems - especially if it's a 'wd' style (IDE/ST506/ESDI) disk. >When I turned both caches off, I managed to get all the way through >the install process, reboot, fsck cleans up filesystem, reboot, get >login: prompt. The machine would ALWAYS hang at this point. I >repeated the process, hitting my machine's Reset button on each reboot >even though I don't have an Ethernet card, but no luck there either. >I gave up at that point. Even if I had been able to log in I would >have dumped the system, because I don't consider running my machine >with caches off a viable option. Again, sounds like a bug in the 'wd' driver - most other failures would likely have generated some kind of message telling you what was wrong. >FYI, I am now running NetBSD without any problems whatsoever, aside >from my own cluelessness. :) I still haven't gotten mail to work... They're using a different 'wd' driver that works better for some folks. It's a bit dubious to call there's "better", but it sounds like it works for you. -DG