Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:01:58 -0700 From: je killen <jekillen@prodigy.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Booting v5.2.1 (Ver 2) Message-ID: <315273131731584522f2524a0dd5a067@prodigy.net>
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--Apple-Mail-7--120602360 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed I have installed FreeBSD version 5.2.1 from a Powerpack package boxed from Fry's Electronics in Burbank Cal. on a ShuttleX machine with Nvidia Nforce motherboard, AMD Athlon XP processor, 512Mb memory, (40Gb ATA hard drive) ATI Radeon 9200 AGP graphics card. I have a CD R/W-DVD reader set to be the boot drive if there is a bootable cd inserted. The First time I tried to boot from the first CD in the package the system froze at a particular step in the boot sequence. After trying a few times I got it to boot into the installer. I stumbled around with the installer and seemed to get the process completed successfully. I have been able to get the machine to TRY to boot from the hard drive but the system hangs in the same location in the boot sequence as the first attempt with the cd. (refer to the attached jpeg). I have attached a jpeg of the screen frozen at the point at which it stops (where the cursor is in at the bottom of the screen). Can anybody view the jpeg and be able to tell me what the problem might be? (I know of no way to retrieve a text file of this because the system doesn't finish booting so there's no log entries to fetch). There is another version that was packaged with Sams 'FreeBSD Unleashed' (The version isn't on the cd but it was 4x) I was successful in installing that version on this machine and used it in console mode for a few weeks while I tried to figure out whyit refused to start Xwindows. (Apparently, it was the graphics card. There didn't seem to be a driver for the onboard Nvidia video; that's why I got the ATI graphics board). I couldn't find any specific support for the ATI graphics card in the 4x system install cd so I decided to install the 5.2.1 version During the install process of the 5.2.1 version. I was able to get the graphical xfree86 config application to run, which suggests that the ATI graphics board is working. But wouldn't it be nice if I could get the system to boot? I don't plan on keeping Freebsd on this machine, unless I can get it to work fantastically well (I had Mandrake Linux v9.0 installed on it along side Windows XP Home, it worked great). One other question, I'm considering the purchase of an HP laptop with an Athlon 64 processor. I think that a laptop is a good choice for a server because of the battery and the small spacial volume. I am planning on serving web content from my home network over an ADSL connection and don't expect more than light to moderate traffic to the site. It will also be running an authoritative named server and revers web proxy for the inside network. Is something that is workable, or is it asking too much of a machine like that? Thank you for your response in advance. jekillen@prodigy.net --Apple-Mail-7--120602360--
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