Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:00:41 -0400 From: "Eric Toll" <etoll@vipstructures.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Agp0 probe forced my to use floppy kernel in 5.2.1 Release Message-ID: <9BC86C67C3AF7646B9C5382020457A9456DE5A@VIP10-WIN2K>
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Hello list! I had a *hell* of a time trying to get FreeBSD 5.2.1 installed on a = Netserver E60. PII 450 SCSI During the agp0 probe the system would lock up tight. Here's what I did. Made some floppies, (since they don't have AGP = support on them) Booted System, went thru the whole install and then = right before Exiting Install, I ran an Emergency Shell on TTY4. Then I FTP'd the gunziped kernel file into /boot/kernel. Then rebooted = system. (From another 5.2.1 box) System came up fine (no lockup) but now I have no ethernet, yet the std = boot and mfsroot floppies do have an Intel nic driver on them that = works, after all I used the floppy boot discs to FTP the floppy kernel = onto my scsi HD. Geesh, what an ordeal. (If you didn't know how to go about it as I = didn't) What am I doing wrong? Is this the wrong way? I tried to let the HD boot = up to the loader prompt after the 5.2.1 install and then set = currdev=3D/dev/fd0 and then do a load kernel (this did not work), and = then to a setcurrdev=3D<back to my HD> so I can boot from it but no luck. Anyway my machine is up but it's pretty useless without Network... Tips, pointers, misc. info would be much appreciated. TIA Eric
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