I've managed to get 5.0RC2 running on my iPaq IA1, using CompactFlash to load the kernel, and a USB to IDE adapter to hold root. So far it's pretty unstable and quirky, but I'm making progress.
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-RC2 #1: Wed Jan 1 11:53:44 EST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/IPAQ Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc0445000. Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter "TSC" frequency 267274539 Hz CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (267.27-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x58c Stepping = 12 Features=0x8021bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,PGE,MMX> AMD Features=0xffffffff80000800<SYSCALL,3DNow!> real memory = 31457280 (30 MB) avail memory = 26083328 (24 MB) Initializing GEOMetry subsystem K6-family MTRR support enabled (2 registers) npx0: <math processor> on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00fa040 pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> at pcibus 0 on motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 agp0: <VIA 8501 (Apollo MVP4) host to PCI bridge> mem 0x50000000-0x53ffffff at device 0.0 on pci0 pcib1: <PCIBIOS PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1 pci1: <display, VGA> at device 0.0 (no driver attached) pci0: <simple comms> at device 4.0 (no driver attached) isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <VIA 82C686 ATA66 controller> port 0x1c40-0x1c4f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 uhci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0x1c00-0x1c1f irq 11 at device 7.2 on pci0 usb0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered umass0: DMI USB 2.0 Storage Adaptor, rev 2.00/11.10, addr 2 uhci1: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0x1c20-0x1c3f irq 11 at device 7.3 on pci0 usb1: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered aue0: LINKSYS Inc. LINKSYS USB Adapter, rev 1.10/1.01, addr 2 aue0: Ethernet address: 00:04:5a:95:c0:bb miibus0: <MII bus> on aue0 ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto pci0: <bridge, PCI-unknown> at device 7.4 (no driver attached) pcm0: <VIA VT82C686A> port 0x1c5c-0x1c5f,0x1c58-0x1c5b,0x1400-0x14ff irq 10 at device 7.5 on pci0 pci0: <simple comms> at device 7.6 (no driver attached) orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xec000-0xeffff,0xc0000-0xcffff on isa0 pmtimer0 on isa0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0 atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 fdc0: ready for input in output fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3 sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 fdc1: cannot reserve I/O port range (1 ports) unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port) unknown: <PNP0f13> can't assign resources (irq) Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec ad0: 15MB <SanDisk SDP3B-16> [490/2/32] at ata0-master PIO1 ad2: 30MB <SanDisk SDCFB-32> [490/4/32] at ata1-master PIO1 MBREXT Slice 5 on ad0s2: 0000 00 01 41 a0 01 01 60 e9 20 00 00 00 60 12 00 00 |..A...`. ...`...| [0] f:00 typ:1 s(CHS):160/1/65 e(CHS):233/1/96 s:32 l:4704 0000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| [1] f:00 typ:0 s(CHS):0/0/0 e(CHS):0/0/0 s:0 l:0 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <GENERIC GENERIC AQE.> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: 57259MB (117266688 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 7299C) The main issues I'm stuck with at the moment is I don't know how to hardwire the kernel to go to da0s1a for root (have to tell it each boot by hand...) and the USB IDE adapter appears to get hung after awhile, blowing up swap and taking the system down with it. Rebooting the IPAQ clears it up just fine, so it appears to be in the usb or umass driver, not the hardware. (I've seen usb ethernet adapters do the same thing but that's improved as of late.) I'm using UFS2 btw, seems to be working fine on the USB drive. Joshua Coombs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message