From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jun 28 1:11:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (server.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D46A37B5A9 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 01:09:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (root@john.baldwin.cx [192.168.1.18]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA99201; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 01:09:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by john.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA00977; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 02:41:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john) Message-Id: <200006270941.CAA00977@john.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200006262320.QAA09626@george.lbl.gov> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 02:41:25 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: (DSD staff) Subject: RE: AMD k7-750 + ASUS K7V Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 26-Jun-00 DSD staff wrote: > I tried to install FreeBSD 3.5 and 4.0 or later on a AMD K7 (Athlon) 750MHz > with ASUS K7V motherboard. The first installation floppy will not boot and > give following message: (all versions of FreeBSD later than 3.5 and 4.0) > > {... meas omitted rest of lines} > > int=0000000d err=000000 efl=00030002 eip=0000567f > eax=... > esi=... > cs=f000 ds=... > cs:eip=0f ... The next byte is critical here. I bet it is 0x32 (or 31 can't remember which one). Turn off boot virus detection in your BIOS and it will work fine. > ss:esp=f4 ... > System halted > > I put a pre-installed 4.0-20000607 IDE hard disk on the system, the system > will boot, but did not not find any network adapters (there are three > differet NIC installed -- Intel EE PRO 100 fxp0, sysKonnect sk0 and > NetGear GA620 ti0) > > Has any one installed later FreeBSD successfully on such hardware combinations? Your mobo's BIOS does Weird Stuff(TM), and you need to disable the boot virus detection stuff. > -Jin -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message