Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:33:53 +0100 (GMT+01:00) From: Vittorio <vdemart1@tin.it> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Weird incompatibility of compaq evo 510 PCs Message-ID: <12268731.1129041233928.JavaMail.root@pswm5.cp.tin.it>
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At office I have an old compaq 450 (p3, 450MHz,128MB) working as a postgresql 8.03 server under freebsd 5.4. Now having the chance of substituting it with a newer Compaq Evo 510 (p4,2,8 GHz, 512MB) to be on the safe side I tested this new pc trying to run freesbie 1.1 on it from a CD. Unfortunately after showing the usual line with root@casad'amico etc.. a cryptic message of fatal error popped up saying something like: int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030246 eip=00003034 eax=0000205d ebx=00000004 etc, etc. Furthermore, identical diagnostics popped up trying to boot FreeBSD from the primary hd of the old pc mounted on this new one. Thinking that there was something wrong with that specific box only I tried: a) to boot freesbie on other compaq evo 510 in my office but all of them failed to boot with the same (or similar??) diagnostics; b) the freesbie cd is ok having tested it on other boxes; b) using a cd for the installation of M$ windows on the evo 510 it all works like a charm and everything is installed. My questions are: 1) Is this a known incompatibility of the Compaq evo 510 PCs ( a search in the internet didn't shed any light on it!); 2) Is there any way to overcome the problem and how? Ciao Vittorio
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