From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 5:22:48 2002 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 57B7237B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 05:22:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from web40611.mail.yahoo.com (web40611.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0EE5B43E7B for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 05:22:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jverba_1965@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20021029132246.57565.qmail@web40611.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [12.226.220.72] by web40611.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 05:22:46 PST Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 05:22:46 -0800 (PST) From: Joe Verba Subject: mfsroot> To: questions@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I recently purchased "The Complete FreeBSD". I am thoroughly enjoying the book, for all intents and purposes I am the quintessential Unix newbie so bear with me. I loaded the kernel onto an HPNetserver LC, once I found to have the kernel probe for up to 12 EISA slots I was able to get to the # prompt. Upon reboot it comes back with mfsroot> (which I assume is due to the probing not keeping the EISA 12??). So I rebooted took the other option (hit the spacebar on bootup), at the prompt I did boot -c when that came up I did an EISA 12 and quit and it booted up fine. So from that I assumed that I needed a specific kernel. So I copied the GENERIC and called it MYKERNEL (here is where I guess my question is) the EISA = 12 was already in the MYKERNEL, is there something that I am supposed to do to this file so that it activates it (I also did the cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL and the make install and rebooted). The instructions in the book really dont mention anything specific to do to the file (just mentions that a # in front comments out the statement, and the EISA=12 did not have a # in front of it so I assumed that it would read this (yes I know I am probably assuming alot)). What am I missing? thanks for your time Joe ps while I have your eyes, this Netserver has a Toshiba cd-rom, an AIC7770 scsi adapter and the probing never finds the cd-rom drive (the bios does recognize it on id #1 (I moved it from the original #3 just to see if it would make any difference) I really have no idea what IRQ it should be at, or what address it should be at either. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message