HIALL,

I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.7 on a 486SX25.SiS chipset VESA
with a Miro S3 Trio32 VGA card.

It is all SCSI Aha1542, 27MB HD, 2*speed CD(Texel) Archive 525 tape.

There is a DOS partition of 70MB set wtih partition Magic.

Unfortunately, my copy of ASPI4DOS is corrupt, and I cant see the CD
from DOS so I created a boot disk on another machine.

It boots OK, and I can do the config, but when I try to commit the
partition changes, the system appears to ahng for a while, then
I get a message 'Not going nowhere without my INIT'.
Then the system reboots. 

The changes have not been made. I have tried to hit it with a warm
or cold reboot during the hang, but no change.

What does the message mean? Is there anything I can do about it?

This mobo does have a problem ... when you first power up the video
does not work ... you must press the reset button first! Otherwise
its fine AFAICT. I can't see how this would affect an OS though.

I have tried loading previous FreeBSDs on other SX25 machines without
too much success either! I can get it to work on a DX66.

Andrew


... Don't believe in superstition - it brings bad luck.
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