Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:25:21 -0500 From: "Chad Day" <cday@atpco.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Installation problems and NIC problems.. Message-ID: <NFBBJEHDJOLEGDCDKEGGCECLCAAA.cday@atpco.com>
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2 problems, the more major one first. Trying to install Freebsd 4.2 from an ISO image + boot floppies.. install goes fine, I make my partitions, use the FreeBSD boot loader, all is well. When my system boots, I pick FreeBSD (my only OS on this system), and it returns: No /boot/loader >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: Invalid format After this I tried setting it up where FreeBSD was the entire partition and used the standard option when it asked for the boot manager bit.. the same thing happened, no /boot/loader .. so I'm obviously doing something very wrong somewhere. 2nd problem -- NIC card When I first go through the installation process, putting in the floppies and all, it does not seem to recognize my NIC card right. The card is a PCI 3c905b fast etherlink card, something that is listed in the hardware compatibility list. When I go into the kernel configuration, there are a bunch of NIC drivers listed that have nothing to do with that card, and report conflicts (7 conflicts). I remove all those, leaving me nothing under the network section, freeing up all the conflicts, figuring I'll take care of the card once I get booted and all. But since I can never do that, I don't get that far. The error it pops up (as much as I could get, as it scrolls by quickly) after I put in the MFS floppy and do the kernel configuration is: xl0: irq 11 at device 13.0 on pci0 xl0: couldn't map ports/memory device_probe_and_attach: xl0 returned 6 Any help is greatly appreciated, I am quite stuck. :( Thanks, Chad To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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