Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:01:32 +0530 From: Jayesh Jayan <jayesh.freebsdlist@gmail.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> Subject: Re: Installation problem with Freebsd 5.4 Message-ID: <e8ecf3c00511100931n76f19d48r2d2cfe930a082fea@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43716D70.1040604@mac.com> References: <e8ecf3c00510250620k648374e1lca149d61d03cc536@mail.gmail.com> <e8ecf3c00510250639xac0f4d3m26b7ec8812e6602d@mail.gmail.com> <20051025135801.GA66887@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20051108190126.424fc6d6@vixen42.vulpes> <43716D70.1040604@mac.com>
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Hi, Thank you all. I did install on another machine and shifted the HDD to the old machine. Initially it didn't work. With the help of the archives and mails from you people I could solve the issue. Now it is up and running :) On 11/9/05, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > > Vulpes Velox wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:58:01 +0200 > > Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > [ ... ] > >> One thing you could try is to burn a 6.0-RC1 CD and try that. Test > >> your memory with memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/). > > > > Memtest86 does not tell you if you have bad ram. It just indicates > > that something some where is wrong with that system there. I've seen > > it hit errors with bad motherboards as well. > > It's true that problems with overheating or a bad MB will generate errors > that > memtest86 will see, but memtest86 is really good at noticing bad RAM. > > It will catch errors that the BIOS self-test won't (which isn't too hard > :-), > and I've never seen memtest86 fail to detect bad RAM.... > > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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