Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:12:58 +0000 From: "clayton rollins" <crollins666@hotmail.com> To: etoll@vipstructures.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re:: Agp0 probe forced my to use floppy kernel in 5.2.1 Release Message-ID: <Sea1-F95i8xETgxH1X30000cfd2@hotmail.com>
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On July 12, 2004, "Eric Toll" <etoll@vipstructures.com> wrote: > >Hello list! > >I had a *hell* of a time trying to get FreeBSD 5.2.1 installed on a >Netserver E60. PII 450 SCSI > >During the agp0 probe the system would lock up tight. > >Here's what I did. Made some floppies, (since they don't have AGP support >on them) Booted System, went thru the whole install and then right before >Exiting Install, I ran an Emergency Shell on TTY4. > >Then I FTP'd the gunziped kernel file into /boot/kernel. Then rebooted >system. (From another 5.2.1 box) > >System came up fine (no lockup) but now I have no ethernet, yet the std >boot and mfsroot floppies do have an Intel nic driver on them that works, >after all I used the floppy boot discs to FTP the floppy kernel onto my >scsi HD. > >Geesh, what an ordeal. (If you didn't know how to go about it as I didn't) > >What am I doing wrong? Is this the wrong way? I tried to let the HD boot up >to the loader prompt after the 5.2.1 install and then set currdev=/dev/fd0 >and then do a load kernel (this did not work), and then to a >setcurrdev=<back to my HD> so I can boot from it but no luck. > >Anyway my machine is up but it's pretty useless without Network... > >Tips, pointers, misc. info would be much appreciated. > >TIA > >Eric > Hi Eric, In the misc. info department, freebsd-newbies isn't the proper forum for this question. All technical questions and replies should be sent to freebsd-questions. Also, things are rarely ever this hard with bsd; when it is this hard, it's likely that you may be missing a simpler answer. I'm not forwarding this to questions at this point, as I believe they will want more info. For instance, you don't mention what NIC you have nor what is using the agp driver. They'll probably want at least that. The boot output may be useful to include as well (use dmesg to get the output). When you do write questions@, you shouldn't need to subscribe as you should be CC'ed on any replies. The only special thing you should do is try to wrap lines in email at 72 characters to make things easier for a reader using an old mail program. With all that said, I suspect that your BIOS settings may be causing the problem. You may need to re-visit those and check for things like plug'n'play or devices requesting the same resources, which can cause problems. Note, this isn't meant as advice, just my first thought of what may be happening. Regards, Clayton _________________________________________________________________ MSN 9 Dial-up Internet Access helps fight spam and pop-ups – now 2 months FREE! http://join.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/
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