From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 12 15:00:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FD2916A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:00:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from godzilla.vipstructures.com (godzilla.vipstructures.com [216.175.208.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF1B43D2D for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:00:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from etoll@vipstructures.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.vipstructures.com [127.0.0.1]) by godzilla.vipstructures.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E97828482 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:00:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from godzilla.vipstructures.com ([127.0.0.1])port 10024) with ESMTP id 25487-10 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:00:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mothra.vipstructures.com (mothra.vipstructures.com [192.168.1.3]) by godzilla.vipstructures.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C5AB28480 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:00:41 -0400 (EDT) content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:00:41 -0400 Message-ID: <9BC86C67C3AF7646B9C5382020457A9456DE5A@VIP10-WIN2K> From: "Eric Toll" To: X-Antivirus: checked by Norton Anti Virus X-MTA-Mailer: Postfix 2 by Wietse Venema - http://www.postfix.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on godzilla.vipstructures.com Subject: Agp0 probe forced my to use floppy kernel in 5.2.1 Release X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:00:43 -0000 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 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