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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!eru.mt.luth.se!newsfeed.luth.se!news.luth.se!erix.ericsson.se!eua.ericsson.se!erinews.ericsson.se!cnn.exu.ericsson.se!uunet!in1.uu.net!140.142.64.3!news.u.washington.edu!lliu From: lliu@u.washington.edu (Le-Chin Eugene Liu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FreeBSD 2.1.5 boot problem Date: 30 Nov 1996 21:21:02 GMT Organization: University of Washington Lines: 18 Message-ID: <57q8fu$m9d@nntp1.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dante05.u.washington.edu NNTP-Posting-User: lliu Hi there, I help a friend install FreeBSD 2.1.5 on his new Pentium Pro 180. The mother board is a Pentium Pro INTEL 440FX Mainboard with 64MB memory. No SCSI. Two Seagate 2GB EIDE HDs. IDE CD-ROM drive. I use a CD-ROM to install FreeBSD on the second drive and use the whole drive.(Win95 on the first drive) I chose standard MBR, because I want to use OSBSBETA to select the OS. Installation went well, including OSBSBETA. OSBSBETA can jump to the second drive. But when I pressed ENTER at the boot prompt, I heard that the HD was accessed for a very short time then the boot prompt re-apeared again. The computer got stuck there. The boot prompt kept coming out, but couldn't load the kernel. There is hardly any error message. Maybe just something about can't load kernel. We tried all the options and nothing worked. Finally, my friend gave up and installed Linux. And no problem for Linux.(still OSBSBETA) Any suggestion is welcome. Thanks. Eugene Liu