Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 22:57:33 -0800 From: "David G. Paschich" <dpassage@flophouse.com> To: Andreas Braukmann <braukmann@tse-online.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble loading installing on my Aptiva Message-ID: <200001100657.WAA07033@flophouse.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Jan 2000 23:10:16 %2B0100."
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> 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
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