From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 24 21:45:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00BBA16A4CE for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 21:45:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from inet.cascadeaccess.com (inet.cascadeaccess.com [64.233.104.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB3CB43D1F for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 21:45:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from emattman@cascadeaccess.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by inet.cascadeaccess.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 154F3E416D for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 20:50:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from inet.cascadeaccess.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (inet [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29872-09 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 20:50:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.2] (pm3-1-019.cascadeaccess.com [64.233.104.98]) by inet.cascadeaccess.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CAFDE4166 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 20:50:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Anderson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Anderson Computer Consulting Services Message-Id: <1082865026.9689.6.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 20:50:27 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cascadeaccess.com Subject: Problems with 5.2.1 Release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 04:45:45 -0000 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. 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. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I did not have the same sort of problems with this machine with 5.1 release or any of the 4.x series. Thanks! Matt Anderson