From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 12 14:26:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31EF216A4CE for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 14:26:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay2-f6.bay2.hotmail.com [65.54.247.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18FEE43D58 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 14:26:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from missive@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 07:26:23 -0700 Received: from 208.186.54.187 by by2fd.bay2.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 14:26:22 GMT X-Originating-IP: [208.186.54.187] X-Originating-Email: [missive@hotmail.com] X-Sender: missive@hotmail.com From: "Lee Harr" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 18:56:22 +0430 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Sep 2004 14:26:23.0012 (UTC) FILETIME=[7A926640:01C498D4] Subject: Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 14:26:23 -0000 >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