From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 9 09:00:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 194DB16A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:00:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA25043D2F for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:00:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BXywQ-00070r-00 for ; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:00:14 +0200 Received: from ns-ilmail3.ns-systems.com ([62.90.139.134]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:00:14 +0200 Received: from haim by ns-ilmail3.ns-systems.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:00:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Haim Ashkenazi Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 12:00:09 +0300 Lines: 21 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ns-ilmail3.ns-systems.com User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Sender: news Subject: newbie question about compiling kernel on compaq proliant 6400R X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 09:00:25 -0000 Hi I have compaq proliant 6400R dual xeon that I just installed with freebsd 4.10 (my first freebsd, although I have a lot of experience in linux). I tried to compile an SMP kernel (uncommented the two smp options and commented the i386 and i486 cpu). the installation went well but it doesn't boot. it hangs as soon as it start to boot (I'm not near the computer so I can't tell where did it hang, my friend who was there couldn't make something out of it, he only said that it hang after 2 or 3 lines, also I couldn't find anything in /var/log/messages). I was wondering if the GENERIC file is the one that the default kernel is compiled from. any ideas? also, I need some advise about firewall. I need a basic firewall (just to protect this machine, the network is already behind firewall). do I need to compile kernel IPFIREWALL support? thanx -- Haim