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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!usenet From: @atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Mike Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help for FreeBSD 2.0.5 with OPTi chipset Date: 14 Jun 1995 03:20:28 GMT Organization: Genesis Software Lines: 36 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3rlkhs$6oj@quandong.itd.adelaide.edu.au> References: <3r2gce$fdu@overload.lbl.gov> Reply-To: msmith@ars.adelaide.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Host: exodus.atrad.adelaide.edu.au X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.03 In <3r2gce$fdu@overload.lbl.gov>, jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) writes: >The FreeBSD 2.0.5 still problem with OPTi chipset-Pentinum motherboard. The chipset has _nothing_ to do with the problems you list below. >It is better than 2.0-SNAP which would completely mess up the 3c509B board. >Three problems I had: > >(1) Installation will not always detect the 3c509B (ep0). To get ep0 > show up in FTP installation menu, I have to reboot a few times. This is a known problem. It is documented in the installation help file included on the boot floppy. >(2) XFconfig is not found during after installation configuration. You are using an old ALPHA version of the boot floppy. Get an updated version from ftp.freebsd.org. >(3) The wd is partitioned as wd0s1, wd0s2, and wds03. However, during > the reboot (after installation), system seems to use wd0a for /. > and says that fsck: /dev/wd0s3e, no sunch file or directory. So, > /usr cannot be mounted, and everything failed. See the answer to 2) above, and read the installation guide. It explains why /dev/wd0a is mounted as / >Please help if any one has experience on OPTi chipset motherboard. Nothing to do with it. (Yes, I _have_ installed FreeBSD on a number of OPTi based boards. None have given me any trouble.) >/-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v ---- Internet: g_jin@lbl.gov ----\ Mike