From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jan 15 7:38:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from foobar.franken.de (foobar.franken.de [194.94.249.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F6BE14C4F for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 07:37:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from logix@foobar.franken.de) Received: (from logix@localhost) by foobar.franken.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id QAA19521; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 16:37:14 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20000115163713.A19373@foobar.franken.de> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 16:37:13 +0100 From: Harold Gutch To: zoltan.sebestyen@netvisor.hu, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail References: <617185BB0AA2D111872400105AD899AD091302@netvisorpdc.intranet.netvisor.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <617185BB0AA2D111872400105AD899AD091302@netvisorpdc.intranet.netvisor.hu>; from zoltan.sebestyen@netvisor.hu on Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 10:51:59AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message