From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 9 22:52:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flophouse.com (flophouse.com [206.169.156.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B370A15229 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:52:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpassage@flophouse.com) Received: from flophouse.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by flophouse.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA07033; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 22:57:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpassage@flophouse.com) Message-Id: <200001100657.WAA07033@flophouse.com> To: Andreas Braukmann Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble loading installing on my Aptiva In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Jan 2000 23:10:16 +0100." Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 22:57:33 -0800 From: "David G. Paschich" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, > > On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 01:05:47PM -0800, David G. Paschich wrote: > > So I just got me a shiny new IBM Aptiva with one of them wacky Athlon > > processors in it, and FreeBSD 3.x won't load on it. > ... hmm. I'm running a 'built-by-myself' Athlon machine (K7-700, > Gigabyte-Mainboard, SymbiosLogic SCSI hostadaptor, fxp network) > under -current and -stable without any problems. > > Really without any problems? No, .. of course not. > I had to _really_carefully_ select the memory. > > Athlon-boards are more then picky about memory. > Just adjust the BIOS-settings concerning the memory-timing to > some conservative values and try again. > If this doesn't help -> swap the memory. I'll try that, thanks. As an aside, the -current shapshot from Sunday booted up just fine, but I'd rather be on the -stable branch than the -current one for this machine's eventual use. Of course, I could always just wait a month for 4.0 to _become_ -stable :) -------- David G. Paschich dpassage@flophouse.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message