From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 02:28:35 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9093106566C for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 02:28:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pldrouin@pldrouin.net) Received: from smtp.cyberfingers.net (smtp.cyberfingers.net [198.177.254.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A91FC8FC0C for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 02:28:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.107] (CPE0023695b905f-CM001a666aca96.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.246.67.95]) by smtp.cyberfingers.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAFE2AB6C68; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:25:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B70C851.9010604@pldrouin.net> Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:28:33 -0500 From: Pierre-Luc Drouin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Peter C. Lai" References: <4B70C1F8.8090809@pldrouin.net> <20100209022039.GE4648@cesium.hyperfine.info> In-Reply-To: <20100209022039.GE4648@cesium.hyperfine.info> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot... 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, 09 Feb 2010 02:28:35 -0000 After doing some more research, it seems that I am having the same problem than described by this person: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4502 however I really don't understand why I would need to move partitions around to allow the installer to even start? This machine has 2GB of RAM which I guess should be plenty enough to start the installer without swapping... The hard drive is a 80GB WD IDE drive. The machine is not configured to use any RAID. Thanks! Peter C. Lai wrote: > Well try turning off ACPI, HyperThreading, etc.? > > On 2010-02-08 09:01:28PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a hard time booting FreeBSD 8.0 on one of my machines. It is an >> older Pentium with HyperThreading. It was running fine with 7.2 but the >> kernel crashed after a buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel/reboot of 8.0. >> I had not updated FreeBSD on that machine for a while so I decided to burn >> a CD of 8.0 i386 (disc1) and boot the machine with it. This does not work >> either however as the kernel wants to automatically reboot the machine >> right after the "Probing Device" stage. Here is the error message I get: >> >> Going nowhere without my init cpuid = 1 >> >> Does anyone know what can be causing this and how to solve it? >> >> Thanks! >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > >