From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 05:16:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20F5916A420 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:16:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alexmayfield@carolina.rr.com) Received: from ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-03-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EDAC43D5A for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:16:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alexmayfield@carolina.rr.com) Received: from [70.60.99.214] (rrcs-70-60-99-214.midsouth.biz.rr.com [70.60.99.214]) by ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1O5G0GK005245; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:16:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43FE9691.1050502@carolina.rr.com> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:16:01 -0500 From: Alex Mayfield User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Zbyslaw References: <43FD9A34.7030401@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <43FD9A34.7030401@dial.pipex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:16:07 -0000 Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > >> Your not using the right install CDs. You have an AMD 64-Bit chip so >> you can't (AFAIK) use the I386 Release. Maybe there is a setting in >> the BIOS for I386 compat, I have no experience with AMD's 64-Bit chips >> so this is just a guess. Or try disabling ACPI and everything else in >> the BIOS etc... That's the price you pay for being an early adopter, >> you don't need nvidia gfx for an Opteron server. >> >> > This is not correct. An i386 version of FreeBSD runs just dandy on > 64-bit Athlons (or 64 bit Intel for that matter) even if this release is > failing on this specific system. All current 64-bit "PC" processors are > backwards compatible with i386. > > I would try the i386 6.1 PRERELEASE CD, the 5.4 RELEASE and the 5.5 > PRERELEASE in order and see if any of them worked. Or try limiting your > google by including the sis 754 and see if finds any help. There are > mentions of 754 problems being fixed in 6-STABLE but I didn't look > closely enough to know if they would help you. > > --Alex > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > I have tried both the 6.1 and 5.4 CD's, both of them bombing at the exact same point the 6.0 boot failed. I'll try 5.5 sometime tomorrow, though I kinda doubt it would make a difference. Is there anything else I can try? -Alex