Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 10:50:00 -0400 From: John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Cc: Trond =?iso-8859-1?q?Endrest=F8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@gtf.ol.no> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE not bootable on a Dell Latitude D510 Message-ID: <200508031050.01339.john@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20050803075431.E40037@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> References: <20050803075431.E40037@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
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On Wednesday 03 August 2005 01:56, Trond Endrest=F8l wrote: > Hi all, > > I received a Dell Latitude D510 yesterday and I wanted to boot FreeBSD > 5.4-RELEASE from the computer's DVD drive. > > However, the booting process stopped abruptly with the following > messages: > > fwohci0: EUI64 36:4f:c0:00:07:ce:d8:30 > NMI ISA b0, EISA ff > RAM parity error, likely hardware failure. I saw the same thing on the same hardware. (The RAM was fine.) Since I wa= s=20 booting into FreeBSD as a diagnostic measure and not to do an installation,= =20 I didn't pursue the matter much further. I _think_ I was able to boot from= =20 a FreeBSD 5.2.1 CD. (I don't remember if I tried 5.3 or not.) That might=20 be the easiest approach, followed by an upgrarde from source with a custom= =20 (non-firewire) kernel. If all else fails, you can build a kernel without=20 firewire on another machine, make your own CD, and boot from that. I'm not sure if a PR has been filed for this or not, or if the problem=20 persists in 6.0-BETA1. JN
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