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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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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

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