Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 23:46:39 -0500 From: Troy Settle <pitlord@usit.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: booting problems Message-ID: <32C9EC2F.533A@usit.net>
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Hey all, I'm sick of beating myself up over this, so I'm asking for some help :) I recently installed FreeBSD on a pentium for the first time. Install went great, no problems. I rebooted, put in about 20 hours worth of configuration and package installation. Built a new kernel, and rebooted. Upon booting with the new kernel, booteasy refused to load the kernel, and just kept restarting (not rebooting, just repeatedly giving me the boot: prompt, then timing out, and attempting to load /kernel, failing, then boot: again). If I enter '/kernel' at the boot: prompt, it will load the kernel, but upon initialization, it just hangs. After about 15 minutes, I give up, and give it a 3-finger salute, and boot '/kernel.GENERIC' with no problems. I rebuilt the kernel a few times, and the problem kept repeating itself. I moved the HD off to another system, and all my kernels booted just fine. Does anyone have any suggestions at what I should look at as a possible cause? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, while I'm posting, does anyone know if there's a way I can use a generic NE2000 PCI card that insists on sitting at IRQ 12, 0xFF40 ? Thanks in advance, Troy
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