From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 11 16:45:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0E8D16A4CE for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 16:45:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A391543D3F for ; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 16:45:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com ([66.30.196.44]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20040411234527016003e64oe>; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 23:45:31 +0000 Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 3972212; Sun, 11 Apr 2004 19:45:27 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: "nathan swenson" References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 11 Apr 2004 19:45:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <443c7a9izt.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 44 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AGP Probe problems (5.2.1/5.2/4.9) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 23:45:32 -0000 "nathan swenson" writes: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD for the first time, but I've run into a > problem. I have tried 4.9, 5.2, and 5.2.1. There are a couple of symptoms > for what I think are the same problem. > > 1. On booting from the CD, during the machine hangs after the following > message (I'm guessing it is probing the hardware): > > agp0: mem 0-0xffffffff at > device 0.0 on pci0 > > The same thing happens regardless of which boot option I choose (regular, > no ACPI, safe, etc). > > So I couldn't install from CD. After some experimentation, I ended up > booting from the floppy images (apparently the floppy images don't do the > same stuff to probe the hardware). I was able to install just fine this > way. > > But when I booted the machine after the install completed, I get the same > message. > > Can anyone help me? I would really like to use FreeBSD on this machine. > > The hardware is: > HP NetServer e60 > dual P3-500 > 256mb ram > SCSI and IDE drives > > I have successfully used Linux (2.2 and 2.4 kernels, RedHat), Solaris, and > Windows 2000 on this hardware. The AGP implementation may be buggy on the > hardware, but these other OSes work ok. > > Any ideas? I had an HP laptop that had similar problems. [I proved that the AGP implementation *was* at fault.] I worked around it by installing from floppies as you did, and then booting the fixit disk in order to load the floppy kernel onto the hard disk. Once I had a booting kernel on the disk, I was able to build my own kernel without AGP.