GEOM is working so far. I can mount a cd-rom without problems and permissions are fine. `dmesg' output follows. After that is my kernel configuration.
There is one problem, not related to GEOM (it's been going on for at least a month), which follows: whenever I reboot the laptop from FreeBSD back into FreeBSD it never gets past "Mounting root ..." The only way I can get it to boot properly is by powering off the laptop. On the other hand I can boot into Windows Millennium fine after rebooting from FreeBSD and into FreeBSD from Windows Millennium. So it seems to just be rebooting from FreeBSD and booting FreeBSD. <dmesg> 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 5.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Oct 2 22:02:06 EDT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc0438000. Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/if_dc.ko" at 0xc04380a8. Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/miibus.ko" at 0xc0438154. Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/if_wi.ko" at 0xc0438200. Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/snd_maestro3.ko" at 0xc04382ac. Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/snd_pcm.ko" at 0xc0438360. Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/agp.ko" at 0xc043840c. Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/accf_data.ko" at 0xc04384b4. Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/accf_http.ko" at 0xc0438564. Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/random.ko" at 0xc0438614. Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/atspeaker.ko" at 0xc04386c0. Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/acpi.ko" at 0xc0438770. Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter "TSC" frequency 846325088 Hz CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (846.33-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x68a Stepping = 10 Features=0x387f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,PN,MMX,FXSR,SSE> real memory = 268369920 (262080K bytes) avail memory = 255889408 (249892K bytes) Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface acpi0: <PTLTD RSDT > on motherboard Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00fdf50 acpi0: power button is handled as a fixed feature programming model. Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0 acpi_cpu0: <CPU> on acpi0 acpi_tz0: <thermal zone> on acpi0 acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0 acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0 acpi_button1: <Sleep Button> on acpi0 acpi_cmbat0: <Control method Battery> on acpi0 acpi_acad0: <AC adapter> on acpi0 pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> mem 0xec000000-0xefffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1 pci1: <display, VGA> at device 1.0 (no driver attached) cbb0: <TI1420 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 4.0 on pci0 cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0 pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0 pcib0: slot 4 INTA is routed to irq 11 cbb1: <TI1420 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 4.1 on pci0 cardbus1: <CardBus bus> on cbb1 pccard1: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb1 pcib0: slot 4 INTA is routed to irq 11 isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0x1050-0x105f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 7.2 (no driver attached) pci0: <bridge, PCI-unknown> at device 7.3 (no driver attached) pcm0: <ESS Technology Allegro-1> port 0x1400-0x14ff irq 5 at device 8.0 on pci0 pci0: <simple comms> at device 8.1 (no driver attached) dc0: <Accton EN2242 MiniPCI 10/100BaseTX> port 0x1c00-0x1cff mem 0xe8000000-0xe80003ff irq 11 at device 16.0 on pci0 dc0: Ethernet address: 00:d0:59:5c:40:f4 miibus0: <MII bus> on dc0 ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto atspeaker0 port 0x61 on acpi0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 acpi_ec0: <embedded controller> port 0x66,0x62 on acpi0 sio0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 port 0x158-0x15f,0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 drq 0 on acpi0 sio1: type 16550A fdc0: <enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xdc000-0xdffff,0xc0000-0xcbfff on isa0 pmtimer0 on isa0 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec Initializing GEOMetry subsystem acpi_cpu: CPU throttling enabled, 8 steps from 100% to 12.5% wi0: <WaveLAN/IEEE> at port 0x100-0x13f irq 11 function 0 config 1 on pccard1 wi0: 802.11 address: 00:30:ab:15:ea:81 wi0: using RF:PRISM2 MAC:HFA3841 CARD:HWB3163 rev.A wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 0.03.00, Station 0.08.03 ad0: 19077MB <IBM-DJSA-220> [38760/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 acd0: DVD-ROM <TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2502> at ata1-master PIO4 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a </dmesg> <config> machine i386 cpu I686_CPU ident LAPTOP maxusers 0 makeoptions DEBUG=-g options INET options INET6 options FFS options SOFTUPDATES options UFS_DIRHASH options COMPAT_43 options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 options KTRACE options SYSVSHM options SYSVMSG options SYSVSEM options P1003_1B options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE options DDB options ATA_STATIC_ID options RANDOM_IP_ID options TCP_DROP_SYNFIN options ZERO_COPY_SOCKETS options PSM_HOOKRESUME options PSM_RESETAFTERSUSPEND options SC_ALT_MOUSE_IMAGE options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=512 options SC_PIXEL_MODE options SC_KERNEL_CONS_ATTR="(FG_GREEN|BG_BLACK)" options SC_TWOBUTTON_MOUSE options GEOM device isa device eisa device pci device fdc device ata device atadisk device atapicd device atkbdc device atkbd device psm device vga device splash device sc device npx device pmtimer device cbb device pccard device cardbus device sio device loop device ether device pty device bpf </config> -- Carl Schmidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message