Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 21:20:12 -0800 From: "David G. Paschich" <dpassage@flophouse.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble loading installing on my Aptiva Message-ID: <200001110520.VAA11757@flophouse.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Jan 2000 22:57:33 PST."
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As a followup to my own message, I went to the BIOS and turned off all the power management and "fast booting" functionality and now my new machine is pleased as punch and cvsupping away. Thanks! > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 01:05:47PM -0800, David G. Paschich wrote: > > > So I just got me a shiny new IBM Aptiva with one of them wacky Athlon > > > processors in it, and FreeBSD 3.x won't load on it. > > ... hmm. I'm running a 'built-by-myself' Athlon machine (K7-700, > > Gigabyte-Mainboard, SymbiosLogic SCSI hostadaptor, fxp network) > > under -current and -stable without any problems. > > > > Really without any problems? No, .. of course not. > > I had to _really_carefully_ select the memory. > > > > Athlon-boards are more then picky about memory. > > Just adjust the BIOS-settings concerning the memory-timing to > > some conservative values and try again. > > If this doesn't help -> swap the memory. > > I'll try that, thanks. As an aside, the -current shapshot from Sunday > booted up just fine, but I'd rather be on the -stable branch than the > -current one for this machine's eventual use. > > Of course, I could always just wait a month for 4.0 to _become_ > -stable :) > > -------- > David G. Paschich > dpassage@flophouse.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200001110520.VAA11757>