From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 17:39:37 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 2549C16A41F for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:39:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jayesh.freebsdlist@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72E1B43D48 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:39:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jayesh.freebsdlist@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t12so316360wxc for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:39:36 -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:references; b=dwbTrwunKOw6EJb5Z6lv1QwTqpr4zIvjSmXNy3Fdu6wHIP7Wgxsnl4u0h1yGHPl963lOq74bOU3q3l7INUNUIExWFgpV7EJvqjy0G7l5CjW4YSgwGDRine/BaLlwLOfTyaCLOmnNdRTJ22hWVbwMwHEIHZyoDaCGMiDN6/R/4gw= Received: by 10.70.50.9 with SMTP id x9mr943032wxx; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:31:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.7.2 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:31:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:01:32 +0530 From: Jayesh Jayan To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <43716D70.1040604@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20051025135801.GA66887@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20051108190126.424fc6d6@vixen42.vulpes> <43716D70.1040604@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Vulpes Velox Subject: Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4 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, 10 Nov 2005 17:39:37 -0000 Hi, Thank you all. I did install on another machine and shifted the HDD to the old machine. Initially it didn't work. With the help of the archives and mails from you people I could solve the issue. Now it is up and running :) On 11/9/05, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > Vulpes Velox wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:58:01 +0200 > > Roland Smith wrote: > [ ... ] > >> One thing you could try is to burn a 6.0-RC1 CD and try that. Test > >> your memory with memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/). > > > > Memtest86 does not tell you if you have bad ram. It just indicates > > that something some where is wrong with that system there. I've seen > > it hit errors with bad motherboards as well. > > It's true that problems with overheating or a bad MB will generate errors > that > memtest86 will see, but memtest86 is really good at noticing bad RAM. > > It will catch errors that the BIOS self-test won't (which isn't too hard > :-), > and I've never seen memtest86 fail to detect bad RAM.... > > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >