From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 10 13:03:34 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 D2E6A16A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:03:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shub-internet.kew.com (h00062574bf3c.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.223.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3211243D49 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:03:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ahd@kew.com) Received: by shub-internet.kew.com (Postfix, from userid 1015) id 8DBBA12353; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:03:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from kendra (kendra.hh.kew.com [192.168.203.132]) by shub-internet.kew.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA57512351 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:03:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Andrew H. Derbyshire" To: Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 09:03:20 -0400 Organization: Kendra Electronic Wonderworks, Stoneham, MA (http://www.kew.com) Message-ID: <000701c4667e$46dda5e0$84cba8c0@hh.kew.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal Subject: Building stable on current or with custom kernel 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: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:03:34 -0000 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-