From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 26 11:48:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merganser.its.uu.se (merganser.its.uu.se [130.238.6.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D35A837B775 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:48:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.csd.uu.se) Received: from regulus.student.UU.SE ([130.238.5.2]:34403 "HELO ertr1013.student.csd.uu.se") by merganser.its.uu.se with SMTP id ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:48:47 +0200 Received: (qmail 2790 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Apr 2000 18:48:13 -0000 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:48:13 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: mattlee@letterbox.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Not Able to Boot Message-ID: <20000426204813.B2729@student.csd.uu.se> References: <001001bfaf97$816d2700$20f0a9ca@singa.pore.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <001001bfaf97$816d2700$20f0a9ca@singa.pore.net>; from mattlee@letterbox.com on Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 11:53:02PM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 11:53:02PM +0800, mattlee@letterbox.com wrote: > hi, > First, there is no need to send to both questions and freebsd-questions. They are just two names for the same list. > i'm a newbie to freebsd. my pentium pc has only dos. copied \bin and > \floppies dir over to my 540mb hd. fdimaged kern.flp and mfsroot.flp to 2 > floppies. > > when i boot from kern.flp, it's ok. prompted me to insert mfsroot.flp. > after that, the configuration screen appears. i chose option 2 (start > kernel config in full screen visual mode). at the top of the screen > displayed '8 conflicts'. since i do not know wat's wrong, i exited the > config screen and boot as normal. > This is where you did wrong. You should go through the list of various devices show in the config screen and disable those that correspond to hardware you don't have and change any IRQ/port settings that are wrong. Then continue with the boot. (The 'n conflicts' message is the number of devices that have conflicting configurations. (Tries to use the same IRQ etc.) You should get rid of all the conflicts before you continue.) > however, i got this message: resource_list_alloc: resource entry is busy > > then bsd reboots itself. > > wat went wrong? > please advise. > > thanks > > matthew > singapore > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message