From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 14:45:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D9CA37B65D for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:45:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA28847; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:44:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200007202144.OAA28847@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: 4.0 cd install problem In-Reply-To: <39775D92.1ACF00B@graphics.cornell.edu> from Hurf Sheldon at "Jul 20, 2000 04:14:10 pm" To: Hurf Sheldon Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:44:38 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, > We have an ASUS dual 266PII board (P2B-D) system with an ASUS > branded CD and IDE hard drive. the 4.0 install CD croaks on it - you > never > get a color menu and, when it does reboot, it dies on a panic > "IRQ = nil" Try flashing your BIOS up to the latest revision. I believe it is revision 1012. We use a P2B-DS board in one of the *.freebsd.org machines, so it should work fine. > The 3.2 Install disk works fine...(except adding > SMP* to the kernel after the install made it very unhappy), > the 4.0 install disk worked fine on a dual300 Dell 410 and the > 4.0 SMP kernel installed and ran without any problem. > > All suggestions appreciated. > > BTW - we've several FreeBSD systems and like them. > > kind regards, > hurf sheldon -- John Baldwin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message