From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 17:18:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2091116A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:18:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tcbug.org (12-218-40-24.client.mchsi.com [12.218.40.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A727843D2F for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:18:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from friar_josh@ns1.tcbug.org) Received: by ns1.tcbug.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 9D158BAE2; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:18:25 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:18:25 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel To: Andrew Walrond Message-ID: <20040629171824.GB2103@ns1.tcbug.org> References: <200406291739.43843.andrew@walrond.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200406291739.43843.andrew@walrond.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help required installing 5.2.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:18:42 -0000 On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 05:39:43PM +0100, Andrew Walrond wrote: > I have tried unsuccessfully to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 from downloaded isos. > > I have the i386 isos, but the first machine I tried was an Asus SK8N > motherboard with Amd Opteron and 2Gb ram. The various hardware is shown as > supported on the Hardware list; notably the Promise SATA150 TX2 disk > controller. > > Although this is an Amd64, I assume the 386 version should still install OK? > > Anyhow, I booted from cd disk 1, went through the various questions, auto > partitioned and it began "Extracting ... into / directory". This went well > for a few minutes, lots of disk activity, then > Panic - page fault > CPUID 0 > > and was informed that the machine would reboot after 15seconds. > > I tried again, this time booting without ACPI, with the same results. > > Any suggestions? > > Andrew Walrond Perhaps ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-amd64/5.2.1/ will work better for you. Josh Paetzel