Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:45:53 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: AMD64 Stable fails to boot on Dell PowerEdge 1950 Message-ID: <20061031114553.ef730ec0.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <185DC54D-A21E-4584-82D3-55608DBBE704@khera.org> References: <45423B3B.2080703@eng.mstarmetro.net> <185DC54D-A21E-4584-82D3-55608DBBE704@khera.org>
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In response to Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>: > > On Oct 27, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Travis Pugh wrote: > > > Is there something I'm missing with regards to ACPI on the AMD64 > > platform? I've read here that i386 boots fine on the same hardware. > > I have one piece of dell equipment which insists on disabling ACPI > timer and then everything works. Disabling ACPI totally seems > undesirable under normal circumstances. I've done multiple installs of 6-STABLE on a 1950 without problems. One of them was used to create a custom install CD that I'm using today to install on several others. Haven't had to tweak anything at all in the BIOS. I missed the start of this thread. Did you give any more hardware details? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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