Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 15:44:49 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 available Message-ID: <20040214234449.GA38808@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <c0mbfr$7kt$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <402E3611.70804@freebsd.org> <c0mbfr$7kt$1@sea.gmane.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 06:37:30PM -0500, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > I'm having great difficulty with 5.2.1-RC2. I installed from an ISO just > this afternoon. Getting the installer running wasn't easy. I tried all of > the usual tricks that have worked for me in the past under 5.1-RELEASE and > 5.2-RELEASE: > > - set hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1 > - disabling ACPI > > But none of that helped. Without ACPI, my kernel would panic before starting > sysinstall's device detection (somewhere before the keyboard probe). And WITH > ACPI it would get further - to the sysinstall device detection screen, but > promptly panic. Finally, I got it to install 5.2.1-RC2 by selecting "safe mode" > from the loader menu. We can't do much without at least a transcription of the panic. > hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 > > Perhaps my hw.ata.atapi_dma line is breaking things? Certainly possible, because that's non-default and unsupported by a lot of hardware. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFALrLxWry0BWjoQKURArlgAJ963Dvg9KBPjRxWqx8DWMpcHv6t/gCgtqOb tjH3U2jhw8+e9uT/5txkUog= =EhDl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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