From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 5 21:52:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA02243 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 21:52:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA02238 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 21:52:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA25071; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 21:52:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 21:52:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: MALCOLM BOFF cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: panic : cannot mount root In-Reply-To: <199803040534_MC2-3570-B870@compuserve.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, MALCOLM BOFF wrote: > Thanks Doug, this particular email should not have been resent but my > Compuserve eMail suddenly decided to ignore deleted items and put > back into my outgoing mail a whole heap of stuff that it then > re-transmitted. How useful. > I managed within a couple of hours to get back in with the previous kernel > so I could have a look at what I had buttoned out in the kernel config. > Argh! I had commented out 'ahc0' the SCSI controller, I put this back in > re-configured and all was well. :-) This is why `make install' copies the current kernel to kernel.old, so if you make a mistake you can always boot the old kernel. > Briefly (and you will probably not remember this judging by the amount of > time you spend helping the community) you responded several months > ago on a problem trying to get X-Windows configured such that I could get > a stable screen. I last week re-visited 'www.xfree86.org' and found that > there is now a new Generic list (with signal timings and VESA entries) > within 1/2hr I managed to get everything working with 3 resolutions and > full > colour, a bit of tweaking with 'xvidtune' and everything up and running. Cool. I usually use `xf86config' to get working modelines (XF86Setup is pretty brain-dead it appears) and tune from there. I just bashed a Millenium II in my professor's computer to do 1152x864 (whatever) using xf86config; the lines he got originally from XF86Setup didn't work beyond 1024x768. > I add this for the benefit of anyone who is having a problem as I had as it > is well worth a visit there as things have improved dramatically since my > earlier visits. I'll check it out; the XFree86 site was always pretty bare-bones, hopefully they've added some much-needed info. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message