Problem booting 5.1 install CD

[Ross, Chris]

	Over the weekend I was working on this and found an old 4.7
release CD lying around.  I figured that it couldn't hurt to give that a
try and see if it would boot.  Sure enough 4.7 was fine.  From there, I
did a cvsup for the current set of 4.8 source files.

	When the 4.8 kernel was built, I excluded agp and a bunch of
other bits from the GENERIC make file.  Can't say if the problem exists
in the 4.8 tree too.  

	It was my hope that I could get my feet wet on 5.1 before going
into real deployment testing.  Any deployments would be on newer
hardware so this problem may not be that big of an issue in the long
run.  I'm not happy about the idea of upgrading from 4.8 to 5.1.  One of
the things that I wanted to look closely at was extended ACLs on UFS2.
Upgrading won't allow me to do that.  From the "Release Engineering
Information" section of the FreeBSD web site, it looks like  6-CURREWNT
will be forked when 5.2-RELEASE is out.  I would assume that this means
there will be little work done on the 4 branch after 4.9 is released.  



-----Original Message-----
From: Lowell Gilbert [mailto:freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org] 
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 11:09 AM
To: Ross, Chris
Cc: freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Problem booting 5.1 install CD

"Ross, Chris" <cross at wcasd.k12.pa.us> writes:

> 	I am having a problem booting the FreeBSD 5.1 install CD.  My
> machine hangs when it goes to pole agp.  Is there a way to disable agp
> when booting from this CD?

I don't think so.  On my laptop, I can't directly install *any* recent
releases, since AGP was put into the default kernel.  I had to install
4.4 and update to -STABLE from there.

Eric Anholt was planning on taking a look at this, but I hadn't heard
about any results.  I had narrowed it down to something weird in the
aperture probe, but I couldn't see any reason for it to actually hang
at that specific point.  To be honest, I had been pretty sure it was
just me, and I didn't have 100% confidence in my hardware anyway.