FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE not bootable on a Dell Latitude D510

[Trond Endrestøl]

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!

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Trond Endrestøl                          |             trond at gtf.ol.no
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