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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!gatech!emf.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!agate!boulder!apuzzo From: apuzzo@snake.colorado.edu (Tony Apuzzo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5 install dies on boot Date: 12 Jul 1995 16:49:47 GMT Organization: /usr/local/news/lib/organization Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3u0ufb$h71@lace.Colorado.EDU> References: <3treue$957@hq.hq.af.mil> <3tskbp$jsm@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: snake.colorado.edu In article <3tskbp$jsm@agate.berkeley.edu>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote: >Can you describe the failure in more detail? Have you also tried booting >with `-c' and disabling all the devices you don't need, as per the >troubleshooting info section of the hardware guide? > > Jordan I had the same (or a similar) problem when trying to install from CD-ROM: With a minimal system: no network, sound, or modem installed. The only things being: Stealth 64 Video VRAM, BusLogic 946C, Micron Millenia P120. With a minimal CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT: BusLogic ASPI and MSCDEX When I run install.bat from the CD-ROM, It loads for a little while (about 2-3 seconds), then the machine crashes (immediate cold boot) The failure also occurs with a full system. EXCEPT, Emm386 gives a protected mode violation instead of the machine crashing. Booting from floppy and then installing from CD-ROM works okay. -Tony -- * * Be a non-conformist like me and don't use a .sig at all. *