Re: Problems with 5.2.1 Release
From: Joshua Lokken (joshua_at_twobirds.us)
Date: 04/25/04
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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:34:10 -0700 To: Matt Anderson <emattman@cascadeaccess.com>
* Joshua Lokken <joshua@twobirds.us> [2004-04-24 22:07]:
> * Matt Anderson <emattman@cascadeaccess.com> [2004-04-24 21:46]:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I've got an older computer. PIII 450. Riva TNT 2 video. Plenty of
> > RAM.
> >
> > Couple of issues. First, let me say that I've been using FreeBSD off
> > and on since version 3.
> >
> > 1. 1st hardrive has Windows XP on it. Full Drive. 2nd drive is
> > devoted to FreeBSD. Boot manager, unlike older versions, seems to
> > always change the active partition when I boot into FreeBSD thus after a
> > reboot I have to boot from a DOS floppy and make the XP partition on the
> > 1st drive active so the computer can boot. I've done several installs
> > over the last couple of days and can not seem to find a way around this.
>
> Others may/may not scold me for suggesting this, but I have had *very*
> good luck with GAG:
>
> http://gag.sourceforge.net/
>
> It will not disrupt your existing loader, and it'll boot both OSes just
> fine from either disk.
>
> > 2. I WAS having a problem with the machine freezing every time I
> > started X. I read in the erata about the ACIP problems and got around
> > that. However, when I created a "custom" kernel, and all I did was add
> > the pcm driver so I could have sound, the machine freezes on boot while
> > accessing the ethernet card. 3Com card that works fine with the Generic
> > kernel. That has me completely stumped.
>
> Me, too.
After a bit more digging, I wonder if it has to do with the device hints
for your new kernel. If you do a:
# kenv -h
you'll get a list of all of the kernel probe hints. I'm not sure, but
maybe you need to add hints for the sound card to /boot/device.hints; it
doesn't look like (since the device isn't included in the GENERIC
kernel) they're included by default. I'd bet the freeze is actually
during the sound card probe.
--
Joshua
"It's like being married to my best friend
(and he lets me feel his boobs.)"
-- Homer Simpson
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