FreeBSD 5.4, installation hangs

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Sat Mar 24 20:52:50 UTC 2007


I think you need more memory for the installer.  If you can, try adding 
more RAM to the system board.

         -Derek


At 06:21 PM 3/23/2007, Moon Shine wrote:
>Hello!
>The Problem: installation hangs after the menu.
>I try to install FreeBSD 5.4 - RELEASE.
>I use 3 diskettes and CD.
>Here that I see when it happens:
>-------------------------
>
>int=0000000d err=00008910 efl=00010046 eip=c07b722f
>eax=c101f000 ebx=0101ec00 ecx=00000000 edx=00000002
>esi=0101e000 edi=01025000 ebp=00000000 esp=c1020d88
>cs=0008 ds=0010 es=0010 fs=0010 gs=0010 ss=0010
>cs: eip=07 09 0f 56 53 8b 5d 0c-8b 4d 08 a1 2c c6 8b c0
>8d 0c c8 66 89 19 8b 45-18 66 89 41 02 c6 41 04
>ss: esp=11 89 7b c0 12 00 00 00-d4 0b 7b c0 0f 00 00 00
>bd f2 43 c0 00 50 02 01-00 e0 01 01 00 00 00 00
>BTX halted
>
>-----------------
>
>Only 2 commands from menu do not come to these result:
>(6) Escape to loader prompt
>(8) Reboot
>
>My architecture: 486 DX2 (66 MHz), 420 Mb HDD, 36 Mb RAM.
>Hard disk is formatted by fat16 (or maybe fat32).
>There are MS DOS and some files.
>
>Possibly problem is with RAM, but i don't shure.
>
>Is there a chance to see FreeBSD on this computer, or I should bury
>this hope?
>
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