Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:45:24 -0600 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Alex Mayfield" <alexmayfield@carolina.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <ef10de9a0602230145q628bfe99y59e02850675519eb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <op.s5d5avt8jg5zmp@alexmax.carolina.rr.com> References: <op.s5d5avt8jg5zmp@alexmax.carolina.rr.com>
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On 2/22/06, Alex Mayfield <alexmayfield@carolina.rr.com> 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/
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