From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 15 18:30:51 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E584106568D for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:30:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mehlert@pdx.edu) Received: from beyla.oit.pdx.edu (beyla.oit.pdx.edu [131.252.120.61]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2DA8FC14 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:30:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [131.252.76.55] ([131.252.76.55]) (authenticated bits=0) by beyla.oit.pdx.edu (8.14.1+/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o1FI7iwO032755 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:07:45 -0800 Message-ID: <4B798D70.9040807@pdx.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:07:44 -0800 From: Michael T Ehlert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9pre) Gecko/20100204 Shredder/3.0.2pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: amd64 gives panic message when booting CD 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: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:30:51 -0000 Hello- I have a server box with an Intel s5000vcl motherboard and 2 dual-core Xeon procs. I was hoping to run FreeBSD 8 on it, but when I try to boot the amd64 media I get panic: No BIOS smap info from loader: I've Googled about and found chatter relating to the message, but no work-around. I'm not a guru, so I'm a bit stuck. Any guidance would be much appreciated :D Thanks, Michael