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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 06:37:30PM -0500, Jesse Guardiani wrote:

> I'm having great difficulty with 5.2.1-RC2. I installed from an ISO just
> this afternoon. Getting the installer running wasn't easy. I tried all of
> the usual tricks that have worked for me in the past under 5.1-RELEASE and
> 5.2-RELEASE:
>=20
>    - set hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=3D1
>    - disabling ACPI
>=20
> But none of that helped. Without ACPI, my kernel would panic before start=
ing
> sysinstall's device detection (somewhere before the keyboard probe). And =
WITH
> ACPI it would get further - to the sysinstall device detection screen, but
> promptly panic. Finally, I got it to install 5.2.1-RC2 by selecting "safe=
 mode"
> from the loader menu.

We can't do much without at least a transcription of the panic.

> hw.ata.atapi_dma=3D1
>=20
> Perhaps my hw.ata.atapi_dma line is breaking things?

Certainly possible, because that's non-default and unsupported by a
lot of hardware.

Kris

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