From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 26 12:28:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F9B1540A for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:27:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dakuntz@home.com) Received: from windows ([24.2.16.41]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19991126202758.BUOM11752.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@windows>; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:27:58 -0800 Message-ID: <000c01bf384d$2824c980$29100218@micronetinfo.com> From: "Douglas Kuntz" To: "Mike Smith" Cc: References: <199911260832.AAA74484@mass.cdrom.com> Subject: Re: Boot error Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 15:31:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok...for hardware, all I have in the machine is: A Linksys 10/100 ethernet (uses pn0) A SCSI card (uses bt0) A S3 Virge video card A FIC VA-503+ motherboard w/ 32meg PC66 sdram and a K6-2 400 the only thing changed between the 2 machines was the other was a Shuttle Socket 370 motherboard, and a Celeron 366 cpu. Everything was moved from one case/motherboard to the other case/motherboard. The kernel had "ata" compiled in, the options for my hardware, and the basic floppy and video, nothing that I though was unusual. Sorrry about the way I typed before...I actually talk like that (or worse) half the time, and I have to remember when to talk/type normally. Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Smith" To: "Douglas Kuntz" Cc: Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999 3:32 AM Subject: Re: Boot error > > First things first; try using English for your problem reports. A large > slice of the community that might be able to answer your questions don't > use it as their first language, and by using leet-speek you immediately > eliminate them as a source of help. > > > Before I go do a fresh SNAP install, I wanted to see if there was an easier > > way to fix this problem... > > My -current box was a celeron...I had to switch the celeron and mboard to my > > windoze machine to get a vidcard werkin...I recompiled the kernel to 486, > > 586, and 686, and moved the HD, the cards, etc, over to the K6-2 400 I > > had...now, everytime at boot, before it even prompts for which OS to start, > > it has a bootloader problem...if I recall it was something like: > > BTX 1.0.0 BTX Loader 1.0.1 > > then "System Halted" > > > > I tried the fixit floppy, etc, and that partially worked, but locked when it > > was mounting the filesystem. > > I'm sorry that I cant provide any more info...I only have 1 monitor and cant > > copy/paste between 2 pcs. > > I'm sorry, but without a lot more information all I can say is "you done > something wrong". > > You might start with an exhaustive list of the relevant hardware in the > actual system in question, followed by the actual set of physical changes > which took it from "working" to "not working". We're not telepathic, and > we don't have the time to hunt you down and steal all your hardware to > solve your own problems, so you're going to have to help us out here. > > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message