i386/86880: 6.0-BETA? hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable

[Mark Hannon]

>Number:         86880
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       6.0-BETA? hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 04 04:40:17 GMT 2005
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mark Hannon
>Release:        6-0-BETA3,4,5
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>Description:
ASUS-A7NX motherboard with nforce2 chipset including nvidia ethernet adaptor.

This motherboard runs 5.4 very well.

I have been unable to get any stability with 6.0-BETA3,4,5.  I have had various problems with sysinstall (usually ending up with it freezing whilst installing one of the binary package sets - not rebooting - just freezing).

I finally installed 6.0-BETA by first installing into a vmware guest, then dumping the filesystems and restoring them from a 5.4 install on another disk partition.  

The 6.0-BETA install is still not stable, it freezes after a random amount of time after booting.

Any suggestions as to how I might troubleshoot this problem?

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