Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 22:59:54 -0500 From: "Will Saxon" <WillS@housing.ufl.edu> To: "Satoshi Sato" <satoshi@din.or.jp>, <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: trouble with K8T Master2-FAR (dual Opteron) Message-ID: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED8CBBE15@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>
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> Hello again, >=20 > I wrote, > Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:36:04 +0900 (JST) >=20 > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD/amd64 to dual Opteron machine. > >=20 > > M/B: MSI K8T Master2-FAR > > CPU: AMD Opteron 240 x 2 > > Mem: 512MB x 2 ( in Slot 1 and 3, Single channel) > >=20 > > I had some trouble with this installation. >=20 > I'm so sorry. >=20 > I fogot very important information. >=20 > I'm using 5.2-Release. I have not tried 5.2-RELEASE but with 5.2RC2 on the same motherboard = with dual Opteron 244's and the same memory configuration I had the same = problem with ACPI causing a kernel panic when using the install CD. I = was able to boot with ACPI disabled and then install the system without = trouble. After than I was able to compile a new kernel with ACPI and = that kernel booted correctly without panicking. What BIOS revision do you have? Maybe we have different ones. What type = of hard drive are you installing to? I am using a Western Digital Raptor = connected to the onboard serial ATA, and was installing from CDROM. The problem I have had is that the bge driver does not initialize the = onboard bcm5705 controller. Since I have some other buggy hardware, I am = now using a linux distribution for the time being. I noticed that their = tg3 driver also does not initialize the controller correctly, while the = (vendor supplied?) bcm5700 driver works fine. -Will
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