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Date:      Sat, 7 Aug 2004 08:09:51 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        "Mogilny I. Aleksandr" <sg@astral.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD-RELEASE-5.2.1-ia64 installation problem
Message-ID:  <20040807150951.GC93466@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040807145647.GA93055@astral.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>
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On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 05:56:47PM +0300, Mogilny I. Aleksandr wrote:
> > 
> > > Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
> > > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> > > 	The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> > > FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Sun Jul 18 13:08:29 GMT 2004
> > >     root@asd:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
> > > Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> > > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2405.46-MHz 686-class CPU)
> > >   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
> > >   Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
> > >   Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
> > 
> > You don't have an ia64 machine.
> > 
> 
> I have now FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE installed on that machine (as i know it has no ia64 support). 

You cannot boot FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE on an Itanium machine.

> And it doesn't define the processor typy correctly. When i installed the 
> FreeBSD-5.2.1-RELEASE i386 it defined the processor.

You also cannot boot FreeBSD-5.2.1-RELEASE i386 on an Itanium
machine.

Since booting an i386 version of FreeBSD works for you, I suggest
you keep using an i386 version of FreeBSD.

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net


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