Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:31:11 -0000 From: "Alan Jay" <alanj@digitalspy.co.uk> To: <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: 5.3 AMD64 on Tyan S2882 Thunder K86 Message-ID: <20050127233114.11D3354837@buxton.digitalspy.co.uk>
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Thanks for this - new to the list so sorry for not searching the archives. Will report back tomorrow on how I get on. > I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 AMD64 on twin > Operton with 8Gb RAM using > Tyan S2882 Thunder K86 motherboard and LSI MegaRAID > SCSI controller. > Almost every time I try to install at some point in > the process I get some > kind of panic usually: Have you tried 'set hw.physmem="4G"' at the boot prompt while doing the initial install? If that works try cvsup to RELENG_5 (stable) and *not* RELENG_5_3 (release). Make world/kernel and reboot wo. hw.physmem. This was mentioned in a previous thread. HTH Claus
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