Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 12:54:34 -0700 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X Message-ID: <200409121254.34865.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY2-F6PrQ6PYl0Mi8B0003d318@hotmail.com> References: <BAY2-F6PrQ6PYl0Mi8B0003d318@hotmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sunday 12 September 2004 07:26 am, "Lee Harr" <missive@hotmail.com> wrote: > >I have an A7N8X-E Deluxe, and have used it with 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and > > now 5.3 beta3. The issues I've read about with Asus mobos have been > > with the VIA chipset, which isn't on these boards, and also with > > ACPI - I have it disabled in BIOS and in the kernel. > > Yea, that is the exact same board I have. I thought the main problem > was with the nforce2 chipset... > > I tried the "Boot with ACPI disabled" choice from the bootloader, but > that one hung during the boot also... I did not try disabling ACPI in > the BIOS, but I will give that a try. OK, something else you probably want to do is add this line: hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" to /boot/device.hints > >>Recently I found out that I can make the system boot > >>4.10-stable by disabling firewire in the kernel. Otherwise > >>it freezes up while booting. > > > >I didn't need to do that, but I don't have any firewire devices, so > > when I create a custom kernel I end up commenting that out, but it > > boots even in GENERIC for me. Do you remember if there was a > > specific error message? What's on the screen when it freezes, like > > what line of text is last? > > There is a thread on -stable where I posted the boot messages. > Here is one ... > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2004-May/007428.htm >l I'm not entirely sure, but I think if you disable ACPI in device.hints and in the BIOS you'll be ok. > >> > Can I create a 5.3 cd myself from my 4.10 system? > >> > (one without firewire, for instance...) > >> > >>Er ... no, but you can download ISOs for 5.3 from the fbsd site. > > > >Wait ... what do you mean? You can pull the sources and create your > > own CDs, but you can't use the 4.10 source to make a 5.3 system. > > Well... my thought was to set up a 2nd src directory and cvsup > to RELENG_5_3 so I could build a 5.3 system and then create > my own iso using a customized kernel without firewire. I just am > not sure I can do all of that while running on a 4.10 system... Well, I'm not entirely sure, either, but in any event I don't think you'll need to go that far. However, I think you'll probably have to stick with 5.x so that your hardware will be supported. - jt
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200409121254.34865.krinklyfig>