From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 15 12:10:46 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BED3606 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:10:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfl@robinlea.com) Received: from 28amen.org (28amen.org [204.3.153.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 182BC6EE for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:10:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by 28amen.org (8.14.5/8.13.6) with ESMTP id r6FCAXXq024212 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:10:44 GMT Message-ID: <51E3E6B9.2030100@robinlea.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:10:33 +0700 From: john francis lee User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: WAS : NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 430 chipset NOW : installation in Vbox repeats endlessly Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:10:46 -0000 2.2.1.2. FreeBSD/amd64 There are two classes of processors capable of running FreeBSD/amd64. The first are AMD64 processors, including the AMD Athlon™64, AMD Athlon™64-FX, AMD Opteron™ or better processors. The second class of processors that can use FreeBSD/amd64 includes those using the Intel® EM64T architecture. Examples of these processors include the Intel® Core™ 2 Duo, Quad, Extreme processor families, the Intel® Xeon™ 3000, 5000, and 7000 sequences of processors, and the Intel® Core™ i3, i5 and i7 processors. /If you have a machine based on an nVidia nForce3 Pro-150, you ///must///use the BIOS setup to disable the IO APIC. If you do not have an option to do this, you will likely have to disable ACPI instead. There are bugs in the Pro-150 chipset for which we have not yet found a workaround./ I have a gigabyte GA-M61PME-52P mother board with an NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 430 chipset. Is that OK? Thanks. Answer : It seems to be OK. I downloaded the release 10 memstick image, put it on a memstick, booted from, ran it as a live cd and it worked OK. I looked at the messages and there were no complaints about ACPI. There was a WARNING : WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance. Don't know what that meant. So I downloaded a 9.1 iso and ... actually I had one I'd downloaded in March, i386, and tried to install that in a Virtual box under ubuntu. The installation seemed OK ... but I looked up and it was rebooting. It ran the installation again and I watched ... to see it drop out at the 3rd screen with a % of files installed. I'll try and download the 10.0 iso image, since it worked from the memstick. -- john francis lee 246/3 Moo 22 Thanon Kaew Wai Mueang Chiangrai 57000 Thailand