On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:25:31 +1000 Paul Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:03 am, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 09:28:27PM +1000, Paul Koch wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:24 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > Issue 1: Can't install on a Pentium P5 class machine: > > > > > > > > > > The install panics when installing the base stuff. No useful > > > > > messages are displayed accept the "panic: page fault" and > > > > > rebooting in 15 seconds. The machines are 10 year old DEC > > > > > Pentiums, 32 to 64M ram, IDE disks, etc. We have four of these > > > > > in our test environment and appear to install and run > > > > > FreeBSD-5.4 fine. > > > > > > > > Try disabling ACPI. Many old systems have buggy ACPI > > > > implementations. Sometimes this can be fixed by a BIOS upgrade. > > > > > > A Pentium 150Mhz aged machine wouldn't have ACPI, would it ? > > > > I don't know..nevertheless, please try it :) > > > > Kris > > Ok, a bit of confusion here. When booting from floppy on these > machines, the option is to "Boot FreeBSD with ACPI enabled", while on > other machines it says "Boot FreeBSD with ACPI disabled". Looks like > this is from beastie.4th. We tried both options and it still panics > when it is extracting base (ie. you can partition, newfs, etc... > using sysinstall). It gets about 2% of the way through extracting > base. AFAIR (haven't look at the code, just what I remeber from installing on some old machines w/o ACPI) the first machines have ACPI the second don't. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
