From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 24 22:34:04 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 D4F2016A4CE for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hunger.joshualokken.com (63-226-239-158.tukw.qwest.net [63.226.239.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B0343D1F for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:34:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joshua@twobirds.us) Received: from freebsd.jolok.org ([10.0.0.3] helo=jolok.org) by hunger.joshualokken.com with smtp (Exim 4.32; FreeBSD) id 1BHbFO-000FAw-FG for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 21:28:06 -0700 Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 22:34:10 -0700 From: Joshua Lokken To: Matt Anderson Message-ID: <20040425053410.GA67834@freebsd.jolok.org> Mail-Followup-To: Matt Anderson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1082865026.9689.6.camel@localhost> <20040425045828.GA67746@freebsd.jolok.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040425045828.GA67746@freebsd.jolok.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Little to none... cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 05:34:04 -0000 * Joshua Lokken [2004-04-24 22:07]: > * Matt Anderson [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. After a bit more digging, I wonder if it has to do with the device hints for your new kernel. If you do a: # kenv -h you'll get a list of all of the kernel probe hints. I'm not sure, but maybe you need to add hints for the sound card to /boot/device.hints; it doesn't look like (since the device isn't included in the GENERIC kernel) they're included by default. I'd bet the freeze is actually during the sound card probe. -- Joshua "It's like being married to my best friend (and he lets me feel his boobs.)" -- Homer Simpson