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Date:      Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:07:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jason Fuller <platypus@wombat.matrixtek.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ethernet card (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006291007200.4826-100000@wombat.matrixtek.net>

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On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, James Housley wrote:

> Jason Fuller wrote:
> At the prompt where it asks to ENTER to boot press the space bar.  Then
> type "unload" to unload the current kernel.  Then you can type "boot
> GENERIC" or what ever you named the GENERIC kernel to.

I can handle the hard stuff.  It's the easy stuff that gets me.  
It crashes hard on GENERIC, so I cannot get a dmesg, but I do have written
down what it says in that area (before it crashes)

plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
ep0: <3Com 3C509-TPO EtherLink III> at port 0x300-0x30f irq 10 on isa0
ep0: eeprom failed to come ready
ep0: eeprom failed to come ready
ep0: eeprom failed to come ready
ep0: eeprom failed to come ready
ep0: eeprom failed to come ready
ep0: Ethernet address 00:00:00:00:00:00
ad0: (drive stuff)
ad1: (drive stuff)
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/wd0s1a
swapon: adding /dev/wd0s1b as swap drive
(File system checks skipped/clean)
Doing initial network setup: hostname

It freezes badly there, allowing no keyboard inputs even to reboot
(ctrl-alt-del).  I had to either hit reset button or power switch.

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