From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 12 07:10:02 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 DAF4416A4D0 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 07:10:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C5EE43D49 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 07:10:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krinklyfig@spymac.com) Received: from unknown (HELO smogmonster.com) (jtinnin@pacbell.net@64.171.1.210 with login) by smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Sep 2004 07:10:02 -0000 From: Joshua Tinnin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 00:10:13 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409120010.13839.krinklyfig@spymac.com> Subject: Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: krinklyfig@spymac.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 07:10:03 -0000 On Saturday 11 September 2004 04:06 pm, "Lee Harr" wrote: > I have one of those goofy asus A7N8X motherboards. I have an A7N8X-E Deluxe, and have used it with 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and now 5.3 beta3. The issues I've read about with Asus mobos have been with the VIA chipset, which isn't on these boards, and also with ACPI - I have it disabled in BIOS and in the kernel. However, IIRC the onboard NIC is only supported in 5.x, which is why I ended up installing it instead of 4.10. > Recently I found out that I can make the system boot > 4.10-stable by disabling firewire in the kernel. Otherwise > it freezes up while booting. I didn't need to do that, but I don't have any firewire devices, so when I create a custom kernel I end up commenting that out, but it boots even in GENERIC for me. Do you remember if there was a specific error message? What's on the screen when it freezes, like what line of text is last? > Today I burned a 5.3-beta3 cd and tried to boot that. > > It looks like it freezes at about the same place that 4.10 > stops, but it is hard to tell. You should try disabling ACPI in the BIOS. > I tried the set console=comconsole trick in the > bootloader to try to save the boot messages from a > serial console, but when I type that in, the system > just immediately locks up. Well, not sure about serial console setup ... > So... a few questions: > > Any other tricks I might try to get this to boot? (some > way to disable firewire from the bootloader, maybe?) I think ACPI might be your problem, but not sure about serial consoles. > Is the set console=comconsole line supposed to work? > Can I create a 5.3 cd myself from my 4.10 system? > (one without firewire, for instance...) Er ... no, but you can download ISOs for 5.3 from the fbsd site. - jt