From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 9 22:56:25 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 1EC9916A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 22:56:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EBCD43D39 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 22:56:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BYBzb-0007Cw-00 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:56:23 +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 ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:56:23 +0200 Received: from haim by ns-ilmail3.ns-systems.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:56:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Haim Ashkenazi Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 01:56:20 +0300 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <20040609141324.R41595@carver.gumbysoft.com> 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: Re: 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 22:56:25 -0000 On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:13:58 -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > >> 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? > > We'll need to see the output. Follow the instructions in the Handbook for > setting up a serial console and use that to capture the output. that's a good idea. I'll do it. > >> 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? > > At the minumum, yes. I believe the Handbook has a section on this as well. thanx -- Haim