From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 31 16:45:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6205716A40F for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:45:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D393043D58 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:45:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from collaborativefusion.com (mx01.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.201]) (TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:45:54 -0500 id 00056413.45477DC2.000024D7 Received: from Internal Mail-Server (206.210.89.202) by mx01 (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 31 Oct 2006 11:39:01 -0500 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:45:53 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: Vivek Khera Message-Id: <20061031114553.ef730ec0.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <185DC54D-A21E-4584-82D3-55608DBBE704@khera.org> References: <45423B3B.2080703@eng.mstarmetro.net> <185DC54D-A21E-4584-82D3-55608DBBE704@khera.org> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: AMD64 Stable fails to boot on Dell PowerEdge 1950 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:45:55 -0000 In response to Vivek Khera : > > On Oct 27, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Travis Pugh wrote: > > > Is there something I'm missing with regards to ACPI on the AMD64 > > platform? I've read here that i386 boots fine on the same hardware. > > I have one piece of dell equipment which insists on disabling ACPI > timer and then everything works. Disabling ACPI totally seems > undesirable under normal circumstances. I've done multiple installs of 6-STABLE on a 1950 without problems. One of them was used to create a custom install CD that I'm using today to install on several others. Haven't had to tweak anything at all in the BIOS. I missed the start of this thread. Did you give any more hardware details? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.