Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:26:27 -0600 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Alex Zbyslaw" <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Cc: Alex Mayfield <alexmayfield@carolina.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <ef10de9a0602231026i5b95fa23k362cf30e044d9e48@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43FD9A34.7030401@dial.pipex.com> References: <op.s5d5avt8jg5zmp@alexmax.carolina.rr.com> <ef10de9a0602230145q628bfe99y59e02850675519eb@mail.gmail.com> <43FD9A34.7030401@dial.pipex.com>
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On 2/23/06, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > >Your not using the right install CDs. You have an AMD 64-Bit chip so > >you can't (AFAIK) use the I386 Release. Maybe there is a setting in > >the BIOS for I386 compat, I have no experience with AMD's 64-Bit chips > >so this is just a guess. Or try disabling ACPI and everything else in > >the BIOS etc... That's the price you pay for being an early adopter, > >you don't need nvidia gfx for an Opteron server. > > > > > This is not correct. An i386 version of FreeBSD runs just dandy on > 64-bit Athlons (or 64 bit Intel for that matter) even if this release is > failing on this specific system. All current 64-bit "PC" processors are > backwards compatible with i386. > > I would try the i386 6.1 PRERELEASE CD, the 5.4 RELEASE and the 5.5 > PRERELEASE in order and see if any of them worked. Or try limiting your > google by including the sis 754 and see if finds any help. There are > mentions of 754 problems being fixed in 6-STABLE but I didn't look > closely enough to know if they would help you. > I see, do the Intel EMT-64 chips use the amd64 release too? And what did he mean by "certain programs being unavalable for amd64", what are the major ones? -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/
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