From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 24 21:58:16 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 DE97C16A4CE for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 21:58:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hunger.joshualokken.com (joshualokken.com [63.226.239.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E62043D2D for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 21:58:15 -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 1BHago-000F9P-Ja for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Apr 2004 20:52:22 -0700 Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 21:58:28 -0700 From: Joshua Lokken To: Matt Anderson Message-ID: <20040425045828.GA67746@freebsd.jolok.org> Mail-Followup-To: Matt Anderson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1082865026.9689.6.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1082865026.9689.6.camel@localhost> 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 04:58:17 -0000 * 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. > 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