Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 20:39:42 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: steve@khoros.unm.edu (Steven Jorgensen) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Pentium w/ PCI and EISA problems Message-ID: <199502240439.UAA00146@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Feb 95 20:51:16 MST." <9502240351.AA00545@borris.khoros.unm.edu>
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> > I'm trying to get install freebsd 2.0 (January CD) on a Pentium 66 > with both a PCI and EISA bus on it. I've noticed a couple > a strange problems, which are probably my fault as I know very > little about setting up PCI and EISA hardware. Anyway, here are > my problems: > > The PCI disk controller seems to be a bit unstable. Under linux > the machine would start having bizarre parse errors during compiles > when the disk got busy. Under FreeBSD I haven't gotten it installed > well enough to run this test. However, when I compile a new kernel > for freebsd, it have to do the following: > > % cp /kernel /kernel.gen > % cp kernel /kernel > > If I do the same two commands with a mv instead of cp, the /kernel > file will not boot. If I use the first method, I get to keep the > generic kernel, but you can't ever boot from it. It looks like > the boot banner is looking at a specific place on disk for /kernel. > I don't have this problem on my 486 at home running freebsd, so I'm > wondering if I missed something. The root filesystem must be less than 1024 cylinders in length - the BIOS can't read past cylinder 1024. If this isn't your problem, well, never mind. :-) -DG
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