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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:44:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        Hurf Sheldon <hurf@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 4.0 cd install problem
Message-ID:  <200007202144.OAA28847@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <39775D92.1ACF00B@graphics.cornell.edu> from Hurf Sheldon at "Jul 20, 2000 04:14:10 pm"

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> Hi,
> We have an ASUS dual 266PII board (P2B-D) system with an ASUS 
> branded CD and IDE hard drive. the 4.0 install CD croaks on it - you
> never 
> get a color menu and, when it does reboot, it dies on a panic
> "IRQ = nil"

Try flashing your BIOS up to the latest revision.  I believe it is revision
1012.  We use a P2B-DS board in one of the *.freebsd.org machines, so it
should work fine.

> The 3.2 Install disk works fine...(except adding
> SMP* to the kernel after the install made it very unhappy), 
> the 4.0 install disk worked fine on a dual300 Dell 410 and the
> 4.0 SMP kernel installed and ran without any problem.
> 
> All suggestions appreciated.
> 
> BTW  - we've several FreeBSD systems and like them.
> 
> kind regards,
> hurf sheldon

--

John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com>


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