FreeBSD will not boot

[nawcom]

ok from what ive figured out is  that kernel option WITH_LEGACY_GPU_SUPPORT
is highly unsupported for the 5.x kernel

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ports/x11/nvidia-driver/Makefile?rev=1.34&content-type=text/plain

my usual suggestion is to use the driver from nvidia.com, nvidia is very
friendly to the open source community - so they have drivers for
freebsd. ive used it myself and agp support works great.

now -  for actually getting back into your system:

do you have a back up kernel handy in your operating system?

i know depending on how things are orginally set up when you install a 
new kernel
the makefile copies the original kernel folder (/boot/kernel) to 
/boot/kernel.old and
/boot/kernel is replaced with the new one.

when you boot up freebsd and you get to the boot screen - select option 
number 6. then
enter the following commands:
 >unload
 >load /boot/kernel.old/kernel
 >boot

let me know if you make it into the OS and if you do  - be sure and 
remove that nvidia option!
ok i hope this help let me know of your status.
-Ben




Adam Stroud wrote:

>All:
>
>I updated my nvidia drivers from the ports collection (Using the
>WITH_LEGACY_GPU_SUPPORT option to add support for my GeFroce2 GTS). 
>During the upgrade process, my machine rebooted on it's own and now
>when I boot I get the following error message:
>
>FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 24 23:25:37 EDT 2005
>adam at osirus.stronet.dyndns.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/APS_KERN i386
>
>kernel trap 18 with interrupts disabled
>
>fatal trap 18:  integer divide fault while in kernel mode
>
>instruction pointer              = 0x8:0xc689f8c
>stack pointer                     = 0x10:0xc1020c88
>frame pointer                     = 0x10:0xc1020c9c
>code segment                   = base 0x0, 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>                                        = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
>processor eflags                = resume, IOPL=0
>current process                 = 0 ()
>trap number                      = 18
>panic:  integer divide fault
>uptime: 1s
>
>Anyone have any ideas?
>
>A
>  
>