From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 16 20:51:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from web1906.mail.yahoo.com (web1906.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B09E137B4C5 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 20:51:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4395 invoked by uid 60001); 17 Oct 2000 03:51:27 -0000 Message-ID: <20001017035127.4394.qmail@web1906.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [65.0.211.47] by web1906.mail.yahoo.com; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 20:51:27 PDT Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 20:51:27 -0700 (PDT) From: tbone Subject: Install Probs: /dev/card0 on a desktop? To: FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I'm having problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 on a 120MHz Pentium desktop (Packard Bell) using the FreeBSD Power Pack CD-ROM, and I no one could help me on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc. I get this error in the vty1 console (Alt+F2) while trying to install: DEBUG: Can't open PC-card controller /dev/card0 I see this even after I disable a PC-card controller shown in UserConfig. I don't have a laptop, so I assume I don't have a PCMCIA bus controller, so I have no idea why card0 would be mentioned. A detailed description of my problem is attached below. If necessary, I can post an additional message with all messages in vty0 and vty1. Please help! -Ted tbonemp3@yahoo.com -- Detailed Description -- I'm trying to install FreeBSD on an old Packard Bell 120MHz PC with: * a Maxtor 52049H4 20GB HD, and * a Mitsumi CR-2801TE CD-ROM/CD-R drive I'm pretty sure these are compatible (the HD is EIDE, the CD drive is ATAPI compatible). I'm running into a confusing problem over and over again. Here's a detailed description of what happens: 1) I boot El Torito (via CD-ROM) to the first FreeBSD installation screen 2) I select the Visual Mode installation. 3) The next screen shows 8 Network-card related conficts. I disable the network devices to disolve the conflicts. 4) I disable the PC-card controller, since I don't have a PCMCIA slot on my desktop. 5) I save and move onto the sysinstall menu. 6) I select Standard installation 7) In the FDISK Partition Editor, I allocate my non-DOS disk space to FreeBSD. 8) I dedicate my disk usage as follows: 100MB for / 256MB for SWAP (rest) for /usr 9) I choose to install All distributions 10) I choose my CDROM as the media 11) The filesystem is created successfully 12) I choose to install All system sources, binaries, and X Windows 13) I instantly get this error on my screen: Installation completed with some errors. You may wish to scroll through the debugging messages on VTY1 with the scroll-lock feature. You can also choose "No" at the next prompt and go back into the installation menus to try and retry whichever operations have failed. I toggle the scroll-lock and page through the messages on both VTY0 and VTY1 and find only the: DEBUG: Can't open PC-card controller /dev/card0 error message. What should I be looking for? I try to boot to my hard drive, it says "no boot loader" and I end up at a dead "boot:" prompt. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? Please help. :)- ===== tbonemp3@yahoo.com ICQ: 7631386 AIM: tbone22mp3 ===== tbonemp3@yahoo.com ICQ: 7631386 AIM: tbone22mp3 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message