4.x Installation failure - White Stripes on initial boot.

[Ron McCy]

Toomas Aas wrote:

>Hi!
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>>  Computer: SpaceWalker-Pentium III.800mHz, 256MB, 20GB
>>  hd running FreeBSD 4.8 as the only operating system.
>>  Goal: Non graphical work stattion - possible Samba
>>  server.
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>>After an minimal installation the system "freezes"
>>shortly after passing the boot manager and the monitor
>>shows several long, white vertical stripes that
>>resemble bar codes. The system is unresponsive and has
>>to be forced to cold boot.  
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>Does this also happen when you boot to single user mode?
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>If it does, then I'm not sure what's wrong - sounds like some hardware 
>incompatibility. Maybe someone can tell after seeing the dmesg.
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>If it doesn't then I'm curious exactly what kind of install did you do? 
>What distributions did you choose to install? It may be worth to 
>install only the bare minimum at first and later add everything else 
>via ports/packages - that's what I usually do.
>--
>Toomas Aas | toomas.aas at raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/
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I tried installing the MINIMAL installation with 4.9 and 4.8. The thing 
dies so quickly- shortly
afterh the boot manager completes -  I don't get a boot option as with 
my other FreeBSD
computers. My only hope in figuring this our via dmesg is through a 
trial installation I did with
SuSe Linux...which works fine.

Thanks