From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 4 21:56:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gate.hentschel.net (gate.hentschel.net [209.249.198.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84DA814D04 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 21:56:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@dorothy.hentschel.net) Received: from dorothy.hentschel.net (dorothy [192.168.1.2]) by gate.hentschel.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00478; Tue, 4 May 1999 21:50:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@dorothy.hentschel.net) Message-Id: <199905050450.VAA00478@gate.hentschel.net> Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 22:46:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas@hentschel.net Subject: Re: kernel compiling To: Chris Dorr Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 May 1999, Chris Dorr wrote: > I've been trying to compile a kernel and I run into one single error > problem that seems to stop me dead in the water. > > It compiles just fine and I reboot (shutdown -r -now) and it starts > booting up again and it gets to a point where it asks for a hostname and > stops. make sure you dont have any device conflicts, at the boot prompt type -c, then visual, use the editor remove all conflicts and set the IRQ / Mem addr according to what your hardware is using. A typical example are 3com 5x9 NIC's, the defaults don't always work. (I found them at IRQ 5 and MEM 0x210 ) -Th To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message