Newbie stuck with kernel config (well sysinstall seams to hang)

[David Jones]

Hello.  I’m struggling with my first install of FreeBSD
(4.9 from CDROM).

I can find my way around the kernel config (visual and cli)
but when I quit this, the sysinstall menu appears and my
keyboard is dead (reset button doesn't work either).  I
have tried to supply as much relevant information as
possible from Windows98 that is currently installed, and
put what I see from an “ls” in cli kernel config mode in
“[..]”.  I’m looking for some advice to move forward –
likely problem areas / other debug I can obtain that might
help.

I’m more experienced with redhat, and if I try booting that
in text mode it dies as soon as it tries to boot the
kernel.

Thanks for any help at all,
 Dave

Hardware;
PentiumIII MMX 500MHz, 128Mb RAM
ATAPI CDROM (Secondary slave)
Seagate 3GB Generic IDE Disk Type46 (Primary master)
NEC Multisync XV15 monitor

Standard PCI Graphics adaptor VGA (in AGP slot) – IRQ11
                                [vga0 0 0 ..
 (I set this with “irq sc0 11”)  Sc0 0 irq11 flags 0x100]

Hard disk controllers;
   Intel82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller – IRQ14
      Primary IDE Controller (dual fifo) – IRQ14
                                       [ata0 0x1f0 irq14]
      Secondary IDE Controller (dual fifo) – IRQ15
                                       [ata1 0x170 irq15]

Compaq Standard 101/102-key Keyboard – IRQ1
                             [atkbdc0 0x60
                              atkbd0  0     irq1 flags 0x1]

Standard serial mouse

Floppy drive – IRQ6 [fdc0 0x3f0 irq6 drq2]

Numeric data processor – IRQ13 [npx0 0xf0 irq13]

Programmable interrupt controller – IRQ2
                                   [nothing assigned irq2]

CMOS real time clock – IRQ8 [nothing assigned irq8]

System timer – IRQ0 [unset irqs appear as 0]

PCI to USB controller – IRQ12 [psm0 0 irq12]


Additional info;

Other drivers assigned irqs;
sio0 0x3f8 irq4
sio1 0x2f8 irq3
sio2 0x3e8 irq5
sio3 0x2e8 irq9
ppc0 0     irq7

ed0  0x280 irq10
ie0  0x300 irq10
lnc0 0x280 irq10
sn0  0x300 irq10

number of EISA slots to probe: 10

BIOS;
Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A (PnP OS disabled
in BIOS).

When booting the BTX info looks like this;
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive B: is disk1
BIOS drive C: is disk2
BIOS drive C: is disk3  <---??


















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