Agp0 probe forced my to use floppy kernel in 5.2.1 Release

[Lute Mullenix]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:00:41 -0400
"Eric Toll" <etoll at vipstructures.com> insisted:

> 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
> 
> 

Was that kernel you transfered a custome job for that machine? If so it
may not have the proper driver built into it for the new machine.


-- 
 Lute

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