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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.fibr.net!news1.crl.com!nntp.crl.com!crl.crl.com!not-for-mail From: jsher@crl.com (Justin Sher) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD hangs on boot Date: 20 Nov 1995 19:36:47 -0800 Organization: CRL Network Services (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Lines: 50 Message-ID: <48rhgf$cur@crl.crl.com> References: <48glen$l75@bud.tic.ab.ca> <48hddp$hrr@times.tfs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Julian Elischer (julian@mailhub.tfs.com) wrote: : In article <48glen$l75@bud.tic.ab.ca>, Kris Hansen <krish@tic.ab.ca> wrote: : >Installs without issue. : >Post install configuration ok. : >boots with or without booteasy and is ok until the bootmanager : >prompt. : which one? : this one? : Boot: : >Then it does the following: : > -Hangs : > -Freezes : > -Dies : Well if it is after the Boot: : prompt, try booting off the floppy and typing: : wd(0,a)/kernel : in answer to the Boot: prompt.. : you don't say WHAT your geometry is, or wht you set up as the : slice/partition figures...... : My guess it's somewhere in there.... : try the following: : get the 2.1SNAP boot/flp and the fixit.flp : boot the boot.flp : select the "fixit" option : do "fdisk" and write down EVERYTHING it says : do "disklabel wd0" and do the same : post the results here.... : julian -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ jsher@crl.com | "Don't you understand the connection between government $:)=&K | and laughing at people??" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------