Re: Older machine won't boot from install floppies

[stan <stanb@panix.com>]

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 06:06:31AM +0100, Sigfred H?versen wrote:
> On Sunday 01 February 2004 05.52, stan wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 05:01:27PM -0500, Tim Henrich wrote:
> > > Stan,
> > >
> > > I had a problem similar to what you're describing when trying to install
> > > 3.4 on my 120GB drive. If your drive is bigger than 8GB and you have
> > > multiple partitions on it you might want to check out this link.. That's
> > > the problem I was having when it hung at that spot during bootup.
> > >
> > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#LargeDrive
> >
> > THnaks.
> >
> > However, it's a 3.2G drive.
> >
> > Was the problem you had a total failure to do teh inital boot from floppy?
> 
> Forgot to mention that my machine hung also at the same spot, due to those 
> soft interrupts I e-mail you about. From the boot floppy.

Thanks for the help on this.

Turned out you gave me the clue I needed. There was an ISA sound card, and
I had forgotten that late in the life of the first generation Vectra's HP
started installing htese by default. Removing it, got my machine booting.

Thanks, again.

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