From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 1 09:56:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA17483 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 09:56:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA17478 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 09:56:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id SAA28086; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 18:55:53 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA20448; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 18:55:52 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id RAA28809; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 17:12:12 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199701011612.RAA28809@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: booting problems To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 17:12:12 +0100 (MET) Cc: pitlord@usit.net Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <32C9EC2F.533A@usit.net> from Troy Settle at "Dec 31, 96 11:46:39 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Troy Settle wrote: > I recently installed FreeBSD on a pentium for the > first time. [...] > I rebuilt the kernel a few times, and the problem kept > repeating itself. I moved the HD off to another system, > and all my kernels booted just fine. What version of FreeBSD? There were some problems in the bootblocks that have been fixed since. > Also, while I'm posting, does anyone know if there's a way > I can use a generic NE2000 PCI card that insists on sitting > at IRQ 12, 0xFF40 ? FreeBSD <= 2.1.6 can only handle them if you configure it manually at these settings (and of course, next time you change your PCI configuration, you will have to boot -c again). FreeBSD 2.2 (BETA and all the SNAPs later than May 1996) supports it directly as a PCI device. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)