Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:21:11 -0800 From: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU> To: NAKATA Maho <chat95@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tyan Thunder K8W (S2885) with FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <20041210172111.GB10811@ack.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20041210.194845.653222828.chat95@mac.com> References: <20041210.194845.653222828.chat95@mac.com>
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On Dec 10, "NAKATA Maho" wrote: Nakata-san, > Yesterday, I installed 5.3-RELEASE to my Opteron dual box. > > o Opteron 242 (1.6MHz) x2 > o Memory ECC PC2700 Reg. trancend 2G modules x4 > + CenturyMicro 512M x 4 > (total 10G) > o Tyan Thunder K8W (S2885) > > I encountered a prolbem, while installtion. As many one pointed out > in this ML, if we have >4G of memory, ATA hangs up. > so I type > o set hw.physmem="3G" > at boot time. > however, I recompiled and re-installed SMP kernel, > FreeBSD never boots even if I type set hw.physmem="3G". > > So I took different way. There's no problem with 5.2.1-RELEASE > and 5.3-BETA4. So CVSup'ing from 5.3-BETA4 to -STABLE > seems to be fine, only set hw.physmem="3G" is mandatory at > installation, and can omit after recompiling world and kernel. > > Does anybody here have problems with it? I have a similar story. 5.2.1 loaded fine, 5.3-RELEASE would cause instant reboots. I was able to cvsup to RELENG_5 and run that kernel. At the time I blamed bad 5.3 CD Media, but perhaps there was something actually wrong. I have a Tyan K8S with 8G of ram. Mike
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