From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 24 16:48:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ncweb.com (mail.ncweb.com [64.240.55.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B9237B406 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 16:48:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monk.ncweb.com ([64.240.54.143]) by mail.ncweb.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4ONlva63983; Fri, 24 May 2002 19:47:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shaun@ncweb.com) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020524193614.00a343b0@ncweb.com> X-Sender: shaun@ncweb.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 19:45:50 -0400 To: "Mike A. Oligny" From: Shaun Newcomer Subject: Re: Help!! Normal 4.5 Install Kernel doesn't work. Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020524203211.GA28416@freebsd.schema.ca> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020524161633.00a3aa60@ncweb.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20020524160447.00a3b2f0@ncweb.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20020524161633.00a3aa60@ncweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I apologize for being vague, I appreciate the time you allow to help me and I will try to be as clear as possible. As far as the 15 seconds goes... it locks up when the duration is set that long. The keyboard and everything become inactive. This is a known bug with this type of IBM that for some reason or another was never addressed. These machines are not very popular. The lock up occurs when you first install it because, at least one of the problems is that the GENERIC kernel doesn't support Multi Processors by default. What I did, was compile, but not install the kernel on another FreeBSD machine that I have. I then replaced the kernel on the kernel floppy with the kernel I made. The next problem after I got the whole thing going is that the install places a regular GENERIC kernel as the kernel to boot from, which doesn't work... it locks up. What I need to do is find a way to either have sysinstall place the functional kernel there, or boot and compile it right on the machine. I thought of two options... 1.) Copying the kernel that I made into the / directory of the CD (basically burning a new one with my kernel). This didn't work. Is there a specific folder in the CD that contains the install kernel? 2.) Doing the same thing I did to the kernel floppy to a fixit floppy, which, in theory would allow me to boot, mount my file systems and either copy the kernel from the floppy into / or just compile a whole new one. Does anyone have any other suggestions?? Shaun Newcomer shaun@ncweb.com At 02:32 PM 5/24/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Shaun Newcomer (shaun@ncweb.com) wrote: > > > I know how to build the kernel and I already have. I > > replaced the kernel I that would work with the one on an > > install floppy and got the install to run fine. But when I > > went to reboot, it looked like the GENERIC kernel was > > installed. > >You're using multiple machines? Compiling this kernel on >one that boots and trying to get it on another that doesn't? > >Unless this is what you are doing, it sounds like you might >just be missing a 'make install' step... you don't need to >use a floppy to replace the kernel! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message