Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:25:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander <amour@amour.ath.cx> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: I can boot only the fixit CD in vary strange way... Message-ID: <20030426151946.W45665-100000@amour.ath.cx>
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Hello, The problem is that I have a laptop which has only a CDRW and both 4.8 and 5.0 freebsds won't boot because of kernel panic. I deal with the problem by compiling a custom kernel on my another box then upload the kernel to a dos partition and then when booting the CD in single mode I tell it to load the custom kernel. But with a custom kernel there is another problem. On the install CD (1), there is no "init" and when my custom kernel finishes booting it just drops me into a "mountroot> " prompt, when I give it "cd9660:/dev/acd0a" and the FreeBSD Installation CD1 is in the CDROM then it complains that "init" wasn't found in several directories and reboots. If I change CDs and put CD2 in the ROM (the fixit CD) then I boot to that CD, but there is no "/stand/sysintall" there so I can't actually install FreeBSD. To build my custom kernel, I just get a unmodified GENERIC kernel config for fbsd 4.8 and comment out lines 168 and 169 which are: device pcic0 at isa? irq 0 port 0x3e0 iomem 0xd0000 device pcic1 at isa? irq 0 port 0x3e2 iomem 0xd4000 disable Those two lines seem to cause the kernel to panic and fail booting. But aren't these the ports for my PCMCIA ?! And this fails on 5.0 and 4.8 ! So I'm at a point, where the FIXIT CD is booted and there is no /stand/sysinstall, can I make the installation in another way ? With the fixit booted I have internet connection, I can mount some dos partitions. Is this enough to install somehow FreeBSD ? thanks P.S. If You reply to this email, please include my email address while responding.
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