Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 16:37:13 +0100 From: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de> To: zoltan.sebestyen@netvisor.hu, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20000115163713.A19373@foobar.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <617185BB0AA2D111872400105AD899AD091302@netvisorpdc.intranet.netvisor.hu>; from zoltan.sebestyen@netvisor.hu on Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 10:51:59AM %2B0100 References: <617185BB0AA2D111872400105AD899AD091302@netvisorpdc.intranet.netvisor.hu>
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 10:51:59AM +0100, zoltan.sebestyen@netvisor.hu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to know if there's a chance to install BSD 3.x on a Gericom
> OVERDOSE II XXL laptop which consists of the following components:
> Standard(I mean they probably do not need some special driver) m$ natural
> keyboard, PS/2 mouse, IDE CD-rom.
> Network card: 3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus PCard; Infrared PnP
> serial(PNP0510)
> Audio card: Some ESS soundcard.
> PCMCIA: Texas Inst. PCI-1225 Cardbus.
> USB: USB-82371AB/EB PCI busmaster [maybe Intel?]
> Video card: Ati RAGE LT PROF AGP 2x.
I have a (relabeled) Gericom notebook, most probably a different
one than you have, as mine has a DVD-ROM.
Are you sure that you have the CardBus version of the Megahertz-card?
There is a pccard-version as well (which I have and use under
FreeBSD).
I didn't have any luck yet with the soundcard though...
> I'm especially interested in the video and the network card compatibility.
>
> I've downloaded the bootfloppies (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp) for pccard
> (3.3-RELEASE/floppies/pccard directory on ftp sites) wrote them on floppy
> and tried to boot FBSD. The floppies were successfully read in, then BSD
> started displaying the following messages:
>
> FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #2 [some timestamp]
> jkh@highwing.cdrom.com:/usr/[path to kernel config file] <-- This
> has changed naturally when booting PAO bootdisk.
>
> Timecounter "i8254" freq 1193182Hz
>
> And that's all. At a very early stage the boot process has stopped. Any idea
> what to do? [Shall I type in something at the boot prompt?]
>
> I'm not a hardware guru so some pieces of information at the start of the
> letter might be innaccurate. These are the results of a 'normal' BSD
> distributions bootdisk, but sadly apply to PAO bootdisks.
I had the same problem and solved it by booting from some 2.2
bootdisks, then installing from my 3.3-RELEASE CDs.
Next I booted using the 2.2 bootdisk, loaded /boot/loader from my
harddisk (which now had a complete FreeBSD installation - all it
was lacking, was an ELF-kernel capable loader) and installed
up-to-date bootblocks ("disklabel <disk> -B").
Good luck,
Harold
--
Someone should do a study to find out how many human life spans have
been lost waiting for NT to reboot.
Ken Deboy on Dec 24 1999 in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
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