From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 18:26:28 2006 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 7CB0B16A420 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:26:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3C0743D46 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:26:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s13so89891wxc for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:26:27 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DAorVJvOdk8QOM/xh4yu0Bktsnp5IKa0Y/ejv2CWbJmzhWNxJ1XVHA1ADoLchWs8hTHuL6bdjEQTQrViMOjfStjZ68bNek6Oh8zb+s6Sxkmj/Bro180RxcpdJRxw5t5YSBXJQifmQctMfeVDxMxDqJbOYBKej+4Ai8hEDOhSj5w= Received: by 10.70.29.16 with SMTP id c16mr624374wxc; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:26:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.65.9 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:26:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:26:27 -0600 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Alex Zbyslaw" In-Reply-To: <43FD9A34.7030401@dial.pipex.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <43FD9A34.7030401@dial.pipex.com> Cc: Alex Mayfield , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE 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: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:26:28 -0000 On 2/23/06, Alex Zbyslaw 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/