From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 23 17:43:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FBEA16A420 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:43:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: from relay.rdsnet.ro (gimli.rdsnet.ro [193.231.236.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1C8F43D82 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:43:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@people.tecnik93.com) Received: (qmail 21723 invoked from network); 23 Nov 2005 17:43:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.130) by smtp1-133.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 23 Nov 2005 17:43:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 14206 invoked by uid 89); 23 Nov 2005 17:43:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (82.76.1.117) by 0 with SMTP; 23 Nov 2005 17:43:09 -0000 Received: from buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACFF7610E; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:43:20 +0200 (EET) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [192.168.0.10]) by buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:43:20 +0200 (EET) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBBC635; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:43:10 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:43:10 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: paul.koch@statseeker.com Message-ID: <20051123194310.41c62e74@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <200511221125.31525.paul.koch@statseeker.com> References: <200511211520.25672.paul.koch@statseeker.com> <200511212128.27760.paul.koch@statseeker.com> <20051121210320.GA6804@xor.obsecurity.org> <200511221125.31525.paul.koch@statseeker.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.8.7; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: on buh by ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: 6.0 Release - Pentium install panic and some questions 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: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:43:33 -0000 On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:25:31 +1000 Paul Koch wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:03 am, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 09:28:27PM +1000, Paul Koch wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:24 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > Issue 1: Can't install on a Pentium P5 class machine: > > > > > > > > > > The install panics when installing the base stuff. No useful > > > > > messages are displayed accept the "panic: page fault" and > > > > > rebooting in 15 seconds. The machines are 10 year old DEC > > > > > Pentiums, 32 to 64M ram, IDE disks, etc. We have four of these > > > > > in our test environment and appear to install and run > > > > > FreeBSD-5.4 fine. > > > > > > > > Try disabling ACPI. Many old systems have buggy ACPI > > > > implementations. Sometimes this can be fixed by a BIOS upgrade. > > > > > > A Pentium 150Mhz aged machine wouldn't have ACPI, would it ? > > > > I don't know..nevertheless, please try it :) > > > > Kris > > Ok, a bit of confusion here. When booting from floppy on these > machines, the option is to "Boot FreeBSD with ACPI enabled", while on > other machines it says "Boot FreeBSD with ACPI disabled". Looks like > this is from beastie.4th. We tried both options and it still panics > when it is extracting base (ie. you can partition, newfs, etc... > using sysinstall). It gets about 2% of the way through extracting > base. AFAIR (haven't look at the code, just what I remeber from installing on some old machines w/o ACPI) the first machines have ACPI the second don't. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"