Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:03:20 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Paul Koch <paul.koch@statseeker.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: 6.0 Release - Pentium install panic and some questions Message-ID: <20051121210320.GA6804@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200511212128.27760.paul.koch@statseeker.com> References: <200511211520.25672.paul.koch@statseeker.com> <20051121092448.GA92729@xor.obsecurity.org> <200511212128.27760.paul.koch@statseeker.com>
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--liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 09:28:27PM +1000, Paul Koch wrote: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:24 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Issue 1: Can't install on a Pentium P5 class machine: > > > > > > The install panics when installing the base stuff. No useful > > > messages are displayed accept the "panic: page fault" and rebooting > > > in 15 seconds. The machines are 10 year old DEC Pentiums, 32 to 64M > > > ram, IDE disks, etc. We have four of these in our test environment > > > and appear to install and run FreeBSD-5.4 fine. > > > > Try disabling ACPI. Many old systems have buggy ACPI > > implementations. Sometimes this can be fixed by a BIOS upgrade. >=20 > A Pentium 150Mhz aged machine wouldn't have ACPI, would it ? I don't know..nevertheless, please try it :) Kris --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDgjYYWry0BWjoQKURAg0fAKDZYfO0dVt8RdB+p8i2TdxeEwks8wCdFVxm UplGLJXz9J01BH4P95J1OVQ= =m4gZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr--
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