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Subject: Re: Problems getting STABLE running on a VAIO 505TL
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 00:11:32 +0200
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Hi,

It's normally
cvsup
make buildworld
make installworld
mergemaster

and after only,

make buildkernel
make installkernel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>
To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:06 AM
Subject: Problems getting STABLE running on a VAIO 505TL


> Hi Folks,
> 
>    I have a VAIO 505TL that I'm trying to get STABLE onto.  What I do
> is install from 4.3 CDROM which goes quite well, the PCMCIA card for
> the CDROM is recognized and used and things work OK. I then do
> 
> cvsup
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel
> make installkernel
> make installworld
> mergemaster
> reboot
> 
> I can then not boot because the kernel hangs after the line
> about ad0: (the disk).  I suspect this of being a kernel configuration
> problem.  What I need to know is:
> 
> 1) How can I find out what the kernel that got installed by 4.3 looked
> like.  I figure it's the fact that I'm using GENERIC that's causing
> the issue but without a way to find out the kernel config I'm going to
> always have this problem and I don't want to do this over and over and
> over again.
> 
> 2) If anyone has gotten this done on this or a similar (recent) Sony
> laptop.
> 
> Thanks,
> George
> 
> 
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