Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 18:56:22 +0430 From: "Lee Harr" <missive@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X Message-ID: <BAY2-F6PrQ6PYl0Mi8B0003d318@hotmail.com>
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>I have an A7N8X-E Deluxe, and have used it with 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and now >5.3 beta3. The issues I've read about with Asus mobos have been with >the VIA chipset, which isn't on these boards, and also with ACPI - I >have it disabled in BIOS and in the kernel. Yea, that is the exact same board I have. I thought the main problem was with the nforce2 chipset... I tried the "Boot with ACPI disabled" choice from the bootloader, but that one hung during the boot also... I did not try disabling ACPI in the BIOS, but I will give that a try. >>Recently I found out that I can make the system boot >>4.10-stable by disabling firewire in the kernel. Otherwise >>it freezes up while booting. > >I didn't need to do that, but I don't have any firewire devices, so when >I create a custom kernel I end up commenting that out, but it boots >even in GENERIC for me. Do you remember if there was a specific error >message? What's on the screen when it freezes, like what line of text >is last? > There is a thread on -stable where I posted the boot messages. Here is one ... http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2004-May/007428.html >> > Can I create a 5.3 cd myself from my 4.10 system? >> > (one without firewire, for instance...) >> >>Er ... no, but you can download ISOs for 5.3 from the fbsd site. > >Wait ... what do you mean? You can pull the sources and create your own >CDs, but you can't use the 4.10 source to make a 5.3 system. > Well... my thought was to set up a 2nd src directory and cvsup to RELENG_5_3 so I could build a 5.3 system and then create my own iso using a customized kernel without firewire. I just am not sure I can do all of that while running on a 4.10 system... Thanks for your time. _________________________________________________________________ Get ready for school! Find articles, homework help and more in the Back to School Guide! http://special.msn.com/network/04backtoschool.armx
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