From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 09:45:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D4E16A420 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:45:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4182643D45 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:45:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id h31so10037wxd for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 01:45:24 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cEigRMg6SaQAk4QSveoynGRTV0GOXTDlt/xLliXU+ye/HtGfu7vC6hGI5WRvICrfHRvKVHP7jhvqEwSgvvAZEurX++QifpiezkdPXxHGmJ19Sbb43BMXAMJeV+QAQRT+pWHycH9XOOPrBc+o3DD9Udr2pB9ijUzNJ30uxKsrTOo= Received: by 10.70.128.4 with SMTP id a4mr7082356wxd; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 01:45:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.65.9 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 01:45:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:45:24 -0600 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Alex Mayfield" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:45:25 -0000 On 2/22/06, Alex Mayfield wrote: > I'm rather new to FreeBSD, and have been wanting to try it out. However, > I am unable to boot from either the i386 6.0-RELEASE bootonly or the i386 > 6.0-RELEASE disc 1 CD. I'm running an Athlon 64 3000+ on a WinFast > 755FXK8AA motherboard (Socket 939, SiS 755 North Bridge, SiS 964 South > Bridge). The boot CD dies right after ago0: figures out my SiS 755 with: > > panic: pmap_mapdev: Couldn't alloc kernel virtual memory. > > Having searched for my problem before posting, I found that another > individual has had a similar problem to mine: > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20060122170123.I76421 > > I followed his initiative and tried the boot option that didn't use ACPI. > No dice. I also checked the MD5 of both CD's and they checked out fine. > Finally, I tried to boot the amd64 version of FreeBSD, and this time it > booted just fine and I got to an installation screen. However, given the > fact that there are no nvidia drivers for the 64 bit version, and certain > programs being unavalable for amd64, I'd really just prefer to use the > i386 version instead. > Your not using the right install CDs. You have an AMD 64-Bit chip so you can't (AFAIK) use the I386 Release. Maybe there is a setting in the BIOS for I386 compat, I have no experience with AMD's 64-Bit chips so this is just a guess. Or try disabling ACPI and everything else in the BIOS etc... That's the price you pay for being an early adopter, you don't need nvidia gfx for an Opteron server. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-amd64/6.1/ -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/