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Subject: Re: releng_5_4 install problems and a question about a possible
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On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:08:35 -0500
Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> wrote:

> Well just working on installing Freebsd 5.4 on a Toshiba Tecra M3.
> The problem I have run into is that it hangs during the loading the
> kernel up. It hangs right after seeing uhci. FreeBSD 6.0 can get
> past it, but decided to whack the MBR in the proccess even when
> told not to mess with it.
> 
> I was wondering what it would take to rework the 5.4 install cd to
> it had a 5stable kernel. IIRC I remember seeing some changes to usb
> code on it some time post 5.4.

Any ways what I did was to get around the problem of it the partition
table and/or mbr being screwed up by 6.0 was just use partition magic
to convert the ntfs partition to fat32. What this did is it allows me
to use the freebsd boot selector. Then I just installed 6.0.