Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:08:55 +0200 From: Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.nl> To: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help required installing 5.2.1 Message-ID: <40E1DA67.6010202@wcborstel.nl> In-Reply-To: <200406291739.43843.andrew@walrond.org> References: <200406291739.43843.andrew@walrond.org>
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Andrew Walrond wrote: >I have tried unsuccessfully to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 from downloaded isos. > >I have the i386 isos, but the first machine I tried was an Asus SK8N >motherboard with Amd Opteron and 2Gb ram. The various hardware is shown as >supported on the Hardware list; notably the Promise SATA150 TX2 disk >controller. > >Although this is an Amd64, I assume the 386 version should still install OK? > >Anyhow, I booted from cd disk 1, went through the various questions, auto >partitioned and it began "Extracting ... into / directory". This went well >for a few minutes, lots of disk activity, then > Panic - page fault > CPUID 0 > >and was informed that the machine would reboot after 15seconds. > >I tried again, this time booting without ACPI, with the same results. > >Any suggestions? > >Andrew Walrond >_______________________________________________ >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" > > > My AMD64 machine couldn't even boot from the i386 install CD. A kernel panic when it's booting. Not that that matters, since the AMD64 version is working just fine :) It's quite strange though, since the AMD folks promised complete backwards compatiblity with the i386 architecture. Or they only guarantee it for Bill's software, which is also a possibility.
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