Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 08:03:39 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@gtf.ol.no> To: FreeBSD mobile <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE not bootable on a Dell Latitude D510 Message-ID: <20050804075836.M35760@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> In-Reply-To: <200508031050.01339.john@jnielsen.net> References: <20050803075431.E40037@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> <200508031050.01339.john@jnielsen.net>
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On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 10:50-0400, John Nielsen wrote: > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 01:56, Trond Endrestøl wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I received a Dell Latitude D510 yesterday and I wanted to boot FreeBSD > > 5.4-RELEASE from the computer's DVD drive. > > > > However, the booting process stopped abruptly with the following > > messages: > > > > fwohci0: EUI64 36:4f:c0:00:07:ce:d8:30 > > NMI ISA b0, EISA ff > > RAM parity error, likely hardware failure. > > I saw the same thing on the same hardware. (The RAM was fine.) Since I was > booting into FreeBSD as a diagnostic measure and not to do an installation, > I didn't pursue the matter much further. I _think_ I was able to boot from > a FreeBSD 5.2.1 CD. (I don't remember if I tried 5.3 or not.) That might > be the easiest approach, followed by an upgrarde from source with a custom > (non-firewire) kernel. If all else fails, you can build a kernel without > firewire on another machine, make your own CD, and boot from that. I'll try a kernel without FireWire then. > I'm not sure if a PR has been filed for this or not, or if the problem > persists in 6.0-BETA1. Guess I could try booting a snapshot as well. Thanks! -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Trond Endrestøl | trond@gtf.ol.no Patron of The Art of Computer Programming| FreeBSD 4.8-S & Pine 4.55
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