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Date:      Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:03:20 -0400
From:      "Andrew H. Derbyshire" <ahd@kew.com>
To:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Building stable on current or with custom kernel
Message-ID:  <000701c4667e$46dda5e0$84cba8c0@hh.kew.com>

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I have a Dell GX100 SMP PIII 733 with a 3COM Ethernet, USR PCI modem, =
and 2
18G SCSI disk.  After problems with running 4.9 RELEASE on it, I am
currently running 5.2.1 on the machine.  (FYI I also have a uniprocessor =
PII
Dell GX1 running 4.10-RELEASE-p2, which I can do a native build on.)

None of my machines have a full CVS repository, just normal source =
trees.  I
mention this because it appears building a install environment (CD =
Image)
assumes local CVS access.

I need to get a -stable kernel booting on the SMP GX100 again to =
determine
the exact issues; I have the second SCSI disk to install onto, but the =
4.10
CD install kernel won't boot because the serial driver sees the modem, =
and
(lacking the PUC device in the install kernel) commandeers the IRQ.  The
machine panics from what I think is secondary damage from the IRQ being
unavailable.   Since the kernel configuration screen doesn't allow =
disabling
PCI devices, there is no (console) workaround.

Thus, I need to install on this machine either with a custom kernel or =
cross
building from the 5.2.1 installation on the other disk.    Suggestions =
as to
how to do either?

-ahd-



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