From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 6 15:50:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imf03bis.bellsouth.net (mail303.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.58.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D6FA37B403 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:50:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leimbacd@bellsouth.net) Received: from mutt.home.net ([66.156.162.236]) by imf03bis.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.01.01 201-252-104) with ESMTP id <20010806225055.IALS6666.imf03bis.bellsouth.net@mutt.home.net>; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 18:50:55 -0400 Received: (from dave@localhost) by mutt.home.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f76MslF01053; Mon, 6 Aug 2001 17:54:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dave) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="CP 1252" From: David Leimbach To: "Mark Hughes" , , Subject: Re: Installation--AMD Duron Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 17:54:47 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <001801c11ec9$87d81670$98e91e3e@mark2> In-Reply-To: <001801c11ec9$87d81670$98e91e3e@mark2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01080617544700.00711@mutt.home.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 06 August 2001 17:45, Mark Hughes wrote: > > What do I have to do to install FreeBSD(4.0) on my AMD Duron 800 in > > MS-6378 motherboard > > > machine?--Loops rebooting on "Syncing disks...11111111111111111111" > > "giving up on 1 buffers." > > I had this problem too. Posted questions to the list at the time and no-one > seemed to be able to offer any help, however downloading and installing 4.3 > instead of 4.0 (actually I was trying 4.1) worked fine. > > I think there may have been a problem with a certain IDE chipset (VIA686B, > if i remember correctly) in the ATA driver, that was fixed at some point > between 4.1 and 4.3, although I don't know where. > I have the VIA chipset as well... I have only ever run 4.2 FBSD and 4.3 FBSD. Linux has had issues with this chipset as well. I have been VERY pleased with FBSD4.3 and highly reccommend it for "solving the problem". > So, your basic answer is you can't install FreeBSD 4.0 on that motherboard, > at least not without any degree of stability. Get hold of the latest > version and you'll be fine. Amen, brother! > > Hope this helps... > > Mark > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message