Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 04:24:48 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Paul Koch <paul.koch@statseeker.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 Release - Pentium install panic and some questions Message-ID: <20051121092448.GA92729@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200511211520.25672.paul.koch@statseeker.com> References: <200511211520.25672.paul.koch@statseeker.com>
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--EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 03:20:25PM +1000, Paul Koch wrote: > Hi, we are having a number of issues with 6.0-Release. >=20 > Our setup: We have ~40 machines in a development test environment,=20 > ranging from P5/150Mhz/32M ram/IDE, PII Celerons, P3, P4, single and=20 > dual processor setups. >=20 >=20 > Issue 1: Can't install on a Pentium P5 class machine: >=20 > The install panics when installing the base stuff. No useful messages=20 > are displayed accept the "panic: page fault" and rebooting in 15=20 > seconds. The machines are 10 year old DEC Pentiums, 32 to 64M ram, IDE=20 > disks, etc. We have four of these in our test environment and appear to= =20 > install and run FreeBSD-5.4 fine. Try disabling ACPI. Many old systems have buggy ACPI implementations. Sometimes this can be fixed by a BIOS upgrade. > hints "./device.hints" > machine i386 > cpu I586_CPU > cpu I686_CPU > ident RNA_KERNEL > options SCHED_ULE You probably want 4BSD, since ULE is slower on many workloads.=20 Kris --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDgZJgWry0BWjoQKURAi1NAKD47R/4uuMDy8xt5NNj7H8lll3mNgCeN9MV 906pMF0nsTWoddW/T7KuWrg= =LQIj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU--
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