5.4-release install problem

[Darryl Hoar]

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Darryl Hoar
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:14 AM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: RE: 5.4-release install problem




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Bryan Maynard
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 4:39 AM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: 5.4-release install problem


On Thursday 04 August 2005 02:33 pm, Darryl Hoar wrote:
>Greetings,
>I downloaded the 5.4-release iso images from the freebsd website.
>I used my windows machine and Nero to burn the iso images to
>cd's.
>
>I have an old machine that I am trying to install 5.4-release on.
>It is a PII 333, SCSI with 30GB scsi hard drive.
>
>I place cd 1 in the drive (disk 1 iso) and reboot the machine.
>When it boots, it looks to the cdrom drive as the first boot device.
>When it does, my screen is full of scrolling text which looks like
>dump info.  It scrolls on and on.

If the text starts grey, then switches to white, then turns grey again 
that's FreeBSD booting. After a little bit sysinstall should load. 
sysinstall is the utility used to install FreeBSD.

>Any ideas on the problem ?

>So far it doesn't sound like anything is wrong. Have you read the 
>handbook at: 
>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html ?

>thanks,
>Darryl

>Bryan
><snip>

>Well,
>I went and tried to look at the scrolling text.  It had several columsn
>with "in" "err" "ef1" "cip".  Their is a line that says:
>BTX Halted.
>ss:esp=

>I'm pretty sure this is not the normal boot process.  I'll look at the
>handbook as suggested.

>-Darryl

Checked the handbook and nothing really relevant to this problem.  Also,
this machine is currently running 5.1-release, so I know the hardware is
good.