From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 23 2:41:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.ie-online.it (dns.ie-online.it [194.133.148.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 903AB1535A for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 02:41:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from dns.ie-interna.it (host1.ie-online.it [194.133.148.10]) by dns.ie-online.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04864; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:41:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Received: from stefano (stefano.ie-interna.it [192.168.0.33]) by dns.ie-interna.it (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA10075; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:41:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sriva@alice.it) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990323114103.00a17dd0@relay.alice.it> X-Sender: riva@relay.alice.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:41:03 +0100 To: "Feng" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Stefano Riva Subject: Re: Lockup on Boot up In-Reply-To: <000501be7517$fa148920$6062fea9@victor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02.29 23/03/99 -0800, you wrote: >When I reboot, the system hangs on an error message "wt0" not detected. But >if "wt0" is the Wangtek tape drive then I did not select it in the >installation. You don't select the hardware during the installation. FreeBSD installs a default (GENERIC) kernel w/ support for many things that probably you don't have. Enter configuration at boot time (type -c at the boot prompt, then choose Visual) and disable everything you don't need. When you're able to boot your system, consider compiling a custom kernel. More info in the Handbook, on-line at www.freebsd.org. --- Stefano Riva Software Engineer - System Administrator Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl Phone +39-027528400, Fax +39-027528451 Email sriva@alice.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message