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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ou.edu!leto.ou.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!europa.clark.net!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!mindspring!news.mindspring.com!usenet From: anindya@bastard.net (AC) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Everex 386 and boot problems Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 03:45:43 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 24 Message-ID: <33a212a8.1642312@news.mindspring.com> References: <339cccde.89899180@news.mindspring.com> <5nl8m6$nv0$2@nikko.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: user-2k7i8ha.dialup.mindspring.com X-Server-Date: 14 Jun 1997 03:43:24 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42953 On 11 Jun 1997 04:13:58 GMT, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp. (Kazutaka YOKOTA) wrote: > >Would you describe your video card, keyboard and mouse (if any)? >Does the box have any interface cards installed? > >Kazu Standard VGA card, keyboard, and mouse (although not connected). I put in an Allied Telesys NIC to try the install over ftp, but as I said, it hung. I then tried the -c option and told it what IO port and IRQ to use for the NIC. Still hung after zp0. Ok, so I removed the card entirely, did the -c option and removed *everything* I didn't need -- a minimal configuration. Still hung. I have been thinking that maybe the problem might have to do with the math-coprocessor? On some older Linux distributions, if you had a co-processor installed, and tried to boot the generic kernel (which of course has the math-co compiled in), it would hang during install. That's a wild theory, though. I should also mention that Linux booted and installed just fine. FreeBSD hangs after all the device drivers. Strange, huh? --Anindya