Re:: Agp0 probe forced my to use floppy kernel in 5.2.1 Release
From: clayton rollins (crollins666_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/12/04
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To: etoll@vipstructures.com Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:12:58 +0000
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
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