From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 22 8:24:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailbox.int.atpco.com (access.atpco.com [206.181.245.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 967CC37B71A for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:24:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cday@atpco.com) Received: from hong ([192.168.140.26]) by mailbox.int.atpco.com (5.6 UNICOS/5.6) with SMTP id LAA11617 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:28:22 -0500 (EST) From: "Chad Day" To: Subject: Installation problems and NIC problems.. Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:25:21 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 2 problems, the more major one first. Trying to install Freebsd 4.2 from an ISO image + boot floppies.. install goes fine, I make my partitions, use the FreeBSD boot loader, all is well. When my system boots, I pick FreeBSD (my only OS on this system), and it returns: No /boot/loader >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: Invalid format After this I tried setting it up where FreeBSD was the entire partition and used the standard option when it asked for the boot manager bit.. the same thing happened, no /boot/loader .. so I'm obviously doing something very wrong somewhere. 2nd problem -- NIC card When I first go through the installation process, putting in the floppies and all, it does not seem to recognize my NIC card right. The card is a PCI 3c905b fast etherlink card, something that is listed in the hardware compatibility list. When I go into the kernel configuration, there are a bunch of NIC drivers listed that have nothing to do with that card, and report conflicts (7 conflicts). I remove all those, leaving me nothing under the network section, freeing up all the conflicts, figuring I'll take care of the card once I get booted and all. But since I can never do that, I don't get that far. The error it pops up (as much as I could get, as it scrolls by quickly) after I put in the MFS floppy and do the kernel configuration is: xl0: irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0 xl0: couldn't map ports/memory device_probe_and_attach: xl0 returned 6 Any help is greatly appreciated, I am quite stuck. :( Thanks, Chad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message