Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 21:58:28 -0700 From: Joshua Lokken <joshua@twobirds.us> To: Matt Anderson <emattman@cascadeaccess.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with 5.2.1 Release Message-ID: <20040425045828.GA67746@freebsd.jolok.org> In-Reply-To: <1082865026.9689.6.camel@localhost> References: <1082865026.9689.6.camel@localhost>
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* Matt Anderson <emattman@cascadeaccess.com> [2004-04-24 21:46]: > 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. Others may/may not scold me for suggesting this, but I have had *very* good luck with GAG: http://gag.sourceforge.net/ It will not disrupt your existing loader, and it'll boot both OSes just fine from either disk. > 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. Me, too. > Thanks! NP ;) -- Joshua "This is Papa Bear. Put out an APB on a suspect, driving a ... car of some sort, heading in the direction of ... that place that sells chili. Suspect is hatless, repeat HATLESS!" -- Chief Clancy Wiggam
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