From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 23 20:40:22 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id UAA25282 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 20:40:22 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA25276 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 20:40:18 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id UAA14005; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 20:39:44 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.9/8.6.5) with SMTP id UAA00146; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 20:39:44 -0800 Message-Id: <199502240439.UAA00146@corbin.Root.COM> X-Authentication-Warning: corbin.Root.COM: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: steve@khoros.unm.edu (Steven Jorgensen) cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Pentium w/ PCI and EISA problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Feb 95 20:51:16 MST." <9502240351.AA00545@borris.khoros.unm.edu> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 20:39:42 -0800 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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