From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 12 19:48:18 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 1CE0F16A41F for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:48:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vdemart1@tin.it) Received: from vsmtp12.tin.it (vsmtp12.tin.it [212.216.176.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC4FC43D45 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:48:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vdemart1@tin.it) Received: from [192.168.10.8] (82.53.171.250) by vsmtp12.tin.it (7.2.060.1) (authenticated as vdemart1@tin.it) id 434690CB003DB399 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:48:10 +0200 From: vittorio To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:47:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <12268731.1129041233928.JavaMail.root@pswm5.cp.tin.it> <44oe5v0vt9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44oe5v0vt9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510122147.58993.vdemart1@tin.it> Subject: Re: Weird incompatibility of compaq evo 510 PCs 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, 12 Oct 2005 19:48:18 -0000 Alle 14:22, mercoled=EC 12 ottobre 2005, Lowell Gilbert ha scritto: > Vittorio writes: > > At office I have an old compaq 450 (p3, 450MHz,128MB) working as a > > postgresql 8.03 server under freebsd 5.4. > > Now having the chance of > > substituting it with a newer Compaq Evo 510 (p4,2,8 GHz, 512MB) to be > > on the safe side I tested this new pc trying to run freesbie 1.1 on it > > from a CD. Unfortunately after showing the usual line with > > root@casad'amico etc.. a cryptic message of fatal error popped up > > saying something like: > > > > int=3D0000000d err=3D00000000 efl=3D00030246 > > eip=3D00003034 eax=3D0000205d > > ebx=3D00000004 > > > > etc, etc. > > > > Furthermore, > > identical diagnostics popped up trying to boot FreeBSD from the > > primary hd of the old pc mounted on this new one. > > Thinking that there > > was something wrong with that specific box only I tried: > > a) to boot > > freesbie on other compaq evo 510 in my office but all of them failed to > > boot with the same (or similar??) diagnostics; > > b) the freesbie cd is ok > > having tested it on other boxes; > > b) using a cd for the installation of > > M$ windows on the evo 510 it all works like a charm and everything is > > installed. > > > > My questions are: > > 1) Is this a known incompatibility of the > > Compaq evo 510 PCs ( a search in the internet didn't shed any light on > > it!); > > 2) Is there any way to overcome the problem and how? > > Try to install FreeBSD 6.0 on one of these machines. > It's more likely to work, and if it doesn't, it is likely to give more > information about what is wrong. > > The information you gave definitely isn't enough to go on. I had a go at freebsd 6.0-beta5 on the same compaq evo 510 to no avail. Sam= e=20 results. A total failure with the same diagnostics. Nothing more ..... Whilst .... both netbsd and openbsd work flawlessly. I'll switch to one of= =20 them. Ciao Vittorio