I am trying to install FreeBSD on a Dell Precision 410 workstation. The
system has two 18G SCSI drives (Seagate ST318203LW) on an Adaptec 7890
SCSI adaptor (BIOS V2.01.05). I've gone through the entire install and
when the system tries to boot the first time the boot loader loads, then a
huge amo
Hi there,
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:26:18AM -0500, Mike Newell wrote:
> I am trying to install FreeBSD on a Dell Precision 410 workstation. The
> system has two 18G SCSI drives (Seagate ST318203LW) on an Adaptec 7890
> SCSI adaptor (BIOS V2.01.05). I've gone through the entire install and
> whe
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Tony Frank wrote:
tfrank> Hi there,
tfrank>
tfrank> > Can anyone help? Is there any way to slow the bootup process so I can at
tfrank> > least read the errors?
tfrank>
tfrank> While I cannot perhaps comment on your problem, you can try either pressing
tfrank> 'pause' key or '
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:48:04PM -0500, Mike Newell wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Tony Frank wrote:
> tfrank> While I cannot perhaps comment on your problem, you can try either pressing
> tfrank> 'pause' key or 'scrolllock' which might help depending on where the problems
> tfrank> are occur
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Tony Frank wrote:
tfrank> I saw the crash/assert type scenario if the boot blocks are not installed
tfrank> properly.
tfrank> Ie the MBR is updated with the bootmgr (F1 .. bit) but the 2nd/3rd stages
tfrank> were corrupted somehow.
tfrank> (In my case I accidentally overwrote
t: Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:08 PM
> To: Mike Newell
> Cc: Tony Frank; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Boot loop in FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE after install
>
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:48:04PM -0500, Mike Newell wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Tony Frank wro
Hi,
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 04:49:00PM -0500, Mike Newell wrote:
> Well THAT'S weird...
>
> I wondered if there might be some strange data left on the drive (I had a
> 4.7-RELEASE install on it prior to this), so I stopped the system in POST
> and entered the Adaptec system utilities. I then did