From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 21:08:58 2004 Return-Path: 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 3421216A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:08:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (wcborstel.demon.nl [82.161.134.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF94743D3F for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:08:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jorn@wcborstel.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost.chello.nl [127.0.0.1]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE8818337; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:09:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.wcborstel.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 84647-07; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:09:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [192.168.2.110]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41DF781FC; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:09:14 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40E1DA67.6010202@wcborstel.nl> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:08:55 +0200 From: Jorn Argelo User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Walrond References: <200406291739.43843.andrew@walrond.org> In-Reply-To: <200406291739.43843.andrew@walrond.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mail.domain.tld cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help required installing 5.2.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:08:58 -0000 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.