VIA EPIA 800MHz + 80GB seagate baracuda + freeBSD 4.8 = boot problem

[paul van den bergen]

Hi all,

I am attempting to install FreeBSD 4.8 on a brand new VIA EPIA C3E based 
MiniITX board.  HDD is an 80 GB baracudda 7200 rpm seagate. 256 MB ram, CDrom 
install media.

interfacing via KVM (no hassles there)

on boot, no problems, kernel from CD loads, install proceeds just fine.

on reboot of configured machine however, boot loader screen comes up fine, 
select boot partition (I have tried a number of combinations), OK, loads 
kernel OK from HDD. but when the kernel starts to load (e.g. after pressing 
enter when asked to press enter to load kernel or any other key for command 
prompt) the screen shows non-random rapid scrolling data - looks like core 
dump info or something - i.e. it has structure but is too fast to see. KB 
does not respond after this....

anyone? HELP!


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Dr Paul van den Bergen
Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
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