From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 24 06:43:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B5916A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 06:43:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from orion.dwf.com (bgp01360964bgs.sandia01.nm.comcast.net [68.35.68.128]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30BFC43D39 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 06:43:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reg@dwf.com) Received: from orion.dwf.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by orion.dwf.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5O6h8v6006628 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:43:08 -0600 Received: from orion.dwf.com (reg@localhost) by orion.dwf.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) with ESMTP id i5O6h8qa006625 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:43:08 -0600 Message-Id: <200406240643.i5O6h8qa006625@orion.dwf.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: clemens@dwf.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:43:08 -0600 Sender: reg@dwf.com Subject: xl0: watchdog timeout X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 06:43:32 -0000 Im sure that this question has been answered about a 1000 times on this list, but I couldnt find the answer in the archive. I have a machine that 'dual' boots windows2000 and several versions of Linux (rh8, rh8, Fedora2, + others) and everything works fine. I have, over the last year tried installing FreeBSD 4.9, 5.2, 5.2.1, and I always end up with the same problem. The install seems to go fine, but when I boot, I get the message xl0: watchdog timeout and I have no networking. This CANT be a hardware problem, since the other OS run fine, yet Ive got to be awfully dense (and consistant) to get the same error with each release of FreeBSD.. So what am I doing wrong??? [[ For reference, I DID have a version of FreeBSD on a previous machine several years ago,- I dont remember problems like THIS ]] -- Reg.Clemens reg@dwf.com