From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 03:31:36 2005 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 4F55C16A41F for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 03:31:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F28743D49 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 03:31:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C905F41; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 22:31:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03809-03; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 22:31:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-122-227.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.122.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49DD05CF8; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 22:31:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43716D70.1040604@mac.com> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:30:56 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vulpes Velox References: <20051025135801.GA66887@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20051108190126.424fc6d6@vixen42.vulpes> In-Reply-To: <20051108190126.424fc6d6@vixen42.vulpes> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4 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: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 03:31:36 -0000 Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:58:01 +0200 > Roland Smith wrote: [ ... ] >> One thing you could try is to burn a 6.0-RC1 CD and try that. Test >> your memory with memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/). > > Memtest86 does not tell you if you have bad ram. It just indicates > that something some where is wrong with that system there. I've seen > it hit errors with bad motherboards as well. It's true that problems with overheating or a bad MB will generate errors that memtest86 will see, but memtest86 is really good at noticing bad RAM. It will catch errors that the BIOS self-test won't (which isn't too hard :-), and I've never seen memtest86 fail to detect bad RAM.... -- -Chuck