From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 16 17:58:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB2316A4CE for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:58:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [65.205.34.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C6843D31 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:58:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from [192.168.7.103] (host-103.int.kcilink.com [192.168.7.103]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D1F2178C for ; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:58:00 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; boundary=Apple-Mail-8--1061320327; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Message-Id: From: Vivek Khera Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:58:00 -0400 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: IBM xSeries 225 with single processor - can't boot 5.x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:58:04 -0000 --Apple-Mail-8--1061320327 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Sep 16, 2004, at 11:37 AM, jcaldwell@ymcastlouis.org wrote: > I've got a number of IBM xSeries x225 servers, which are dual-capable > but > right now have only one Xeon processor each. Attempting to boot from > the > install CD for both 5.2.1 and 5.3-BETA3 yields the same problem - > endless > streams of what look like register states, seperated by single > characters > of the '/|\-' sequence. Doesn't even get past the boot loader. > Does it look like what I just submitted in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=71800 I'm on a generic system with an AMD Duron 850MHz processor. This has only happend to me on BETA3 (just cvsup'd to BETA4). Hopefully it won't happen again! --Apple-Mail-8--1061320327--