Here's my kernel configuration, the standard install kernel dmesg and also
my fstab. This might give you a better look at things.
- Marc -
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MYKERNEL
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machine i386
cpu I486_CPU
ident MYKERNEL
maxusers 40
#makeoptions DEBUG=-g #Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols
#options MATH_EMULATE #Support for x87 emulation
options INET #InterNETworking
#options INET6 #IPv6 communications protocols
#options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem
#options FFS_ROOT #FFS usable as root device [keep this!]
#options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support
options UFS_DIRHASH #Improve performance on big directories
options MFS #Memory Filesystem
options MD_ROOT #MD is a potential root device
options NFS #Network Filesystem
options NFS_ROOT #NFS usable as root device, NFS required
#options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem
#options CD9660 #ISO 9660 Filesystem
#options CD9660_ROOT #CD-ROM usable as root, CD9660 required
options PROCFS #Process filesystem
options COMPAT_43 #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console
options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor
options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor
options KTRACE #ktrace(1) support
options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory
options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues
options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores
options P1003_1B #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions
options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING
options ICMP_BANDLIM #Rate limit bad replies
options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev
device isa
device eisa
device pci
# Floppy drives
device fdc0 at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2
device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0
#device fd1 at fdc0 drive 1
# ATA and ATAPI devices
device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14
device ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15
#device ata
#device atadisk # ATA disk drives
device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives
device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives
#options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering
# atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
device atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD
device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1
#device psm0 at atkbdc? irq 12
device vga0 at isa?
# splash screen/screen saver
pseudo-device splash
# syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
device sc0 at isa? flags 0x100
# Floating point support - do not disable.
device npx0 at nexus? port IO_NPX irq 13
# Serial (COM) ports
#device sio0 at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4
#device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 irq 3
#device sio2 at isa? disable port IO_COM3 irq 5
#device sio3 at isa? disable port IO_COM4 irq 9
# Parallel port
#device ppc0 at isa? irq 7
#device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required)
#device lpt # Printer
#device plip # TCP/IP over parallel
#device ppi # Parallel port interface device
#device vpo # Requires scbus and da
# ISA Ethernet NICs.
#device ie0 at isa? port 0x300 irq 10 iomem 0xd0000
device le0 at isa? port 0x300 irq 5 iomem 0xd0000
#device lnc0 at isa? port 0x280 irq 10 drq 0
#device cs0 at isa? port 0x300
#device sn0 at isa? port 0x300 irq 10
# Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
pseudo-device loop # Network loopback
pseudo-device ether # Ethernet support
pseudo-device sl 1 # Kernel SLIP
pseudo-device ppp 1 # Kernel PPP
pseudo-device tun # Packet tunnel.
pseudo-device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
pseudo-device md # Memory "disks"
pseudo-device gif # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling
pseudo-device faith 1 # IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation)
# The `bpf' pseudo-device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter.
# Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this!
#pseudo-device bpf #Berkeley packet filter
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FSTAB
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# See the fstab(5) manual page for important information on automatic mounts
# of network filesystems before modifying this file.
#
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
/dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/ad0s1f /tmp ufs rw 2 2
/dev/ad0s1g /usr ufs rw 2 2
/dev/ad0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2
/dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
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DMESG
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Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 28 14:31:56 GMT 2002
mur...@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU)
real memory = 33816576 (33024K bytes)
avail memory = 28360704 (27696K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel.old" at 0xc0496000.
md0: Malloc disk
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
isa0: <ISA bus> on motherboard
orm0: <Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
fdc0: <NEC 765 or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
ata0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 irq 14 on isa0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16450
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16450
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
ad0: 4133MB <FUJITSU MPE3043AE> [8959/15/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO
acd0: CDROM <ATAPI CD ROM DRIVE 50X MAX> at ata0-slave using BIOSPIO
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
"John Nielsen" <zoo...@bsdconspiracy.net> wrote in message
news:WcZg8.16049$e07.3259@sccrnsc01...
> "marc" <marc.corm...@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:LEYg8.243$Hv4.69676@sapphire.mtt.net...
> > I have FreeBSD 4.5 installed on an old 486. Compiled the kernel several
> > times with different options enabled/disabled and searched on the web
for
> > similar problems but only found answers (I think...) in other languages.
> Can
> > anyone help me as I'm about to give up on FreeBSD.
> > FreeBSD 4.5
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > mountroot> ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> > no such device 'da'
> > setrootbyname failed
> > ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp
> > Root mount failed: 6
> > Manual root filesystem specitifation:
> > <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
> > eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> > ? List valid disk boot devices
> > <empty line> Abort manual input
> > mountroot>
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> da is the "direct access" SCSI driver. Do you have a SCSI disk? If so,
do
> you have all of the necessary SCSI options in your kernel? (At a minimum,
> this would include your controller ("device ahb" or "device ahc", for
> example), scbus, and da.) Do the da* device entries exist in /dev?
> If you don't have SCSI disks, you need to edit etc/fstab to have it use
the
> proper devices. However, unless you've edited fstab before, you probably
do
> have SCSI disks..
> JN
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