From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 13 10:23:05 2005 Return-Path: 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 C640016A4CE for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:23:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88EDF43D49 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:23:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B37BB51268; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 03:23:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 03:23:04 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Edgar Martinez Message-ID: <20050413102304.GB57881@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050413061042.53D2D378C2@mxc1.crockettint.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nVMJ2NtxeReIH9PS" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050413061042.53D2D378C2@mxc1.crockettint.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 (former i386 convert)+ FreeBSD various issues in 5.3, 5.4 (pre+post install) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:23:05 -0000 --nVMJ2NtxeReIH9PS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 01:10:42AM -0500, Edgar Martinez wrote: > All, >=20 > =20 >=20 > I cant begin to tell you how horrible of a time I have had trying to get > this system installed and running. Sysinstall kept throwing up a privilege > fault kernel error randomly (7sed...4m.7m..etc), and after I go fast enou= gh > to get lucky to an install complete..the system then spends its time > periodically rebooting.this is the first venture into AMD64 turf as I > historically stick with i386.so any pointers.gotchas.tweaks or tips.. ple= ase > let me know..I really don't want to give up, so I want to see what can be > done to stabilize this. Sounds like the usual bad hardware story..check RAM, power supply, CPU cooling, cabling, etc. kris --nVMJ2NtxeReIH9PS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCXPMHWry0BWjoQKURAtvhAJ9FV2xBym1fGNkYGa8AxYnBzdLlKQCfXyQD KM9bnodEdXEK0AeoaA00sIk= =Jdz+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nVMJ2NtxeReIH9PS--