Installing FreeBSD

[Masoom Shaikh]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Rommel Tan <rtan_01 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Dear Sir/Madam:
> Pleasant day!
> First of all, sorry if this enquiry shouldn't be directed to you, please
> help me direct to the right person.
> Few months ago I've purchase a FreeBSD book which includes an installation
> DVD for FreeBSD 6.1. I tried to install it in my Toshiba Satellite, Intel
> Centrino with current Windows XP SP3 OS after doing some partition. But, I'm
> stock with boot error; sorry I'm very new to this system; I tried to search
> for an answer but no to avail.
> Here is the last part of the error:
> .....
> Pci6: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
> Pci6: <network> at device 2.0 (no driver attached)
> Cbb0: <PCI-CArdBus Bridge> eme 0x8007000-0xb8007fff irq 16 at device 4.0 on
> pci6
> Cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
> Pccard0: <16-bit PCCard> on cbb0
> Fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> mem
> 0xb8008000-0xb80087ff,0xb800000-0xb8003fff irq 18 at device 4.2 on pci6
> Fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=0)
> Fwohci0: No. Of Isochronous channels is 4.
> Fwohci0: EUI64 00:02:3f:58:69:40:a5:e6
> NMI ISA b0, EISA ff
> RAM parity error, likely hardware failure.


the above line is very clear to me. RAM is gone. Then it implies u cannot
boot XP on this machine, can you ?

>
> Fatal trap 19: non-maskable interrupt trap while in kernel mode
> Instruction pointer          = 0x20:0xc0528586
> Stack pointer                     = 0x28:0xc10209c4
> Frame pointer                   = 0x28:0xc10209d8
> Code segment                  = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>                                                 = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1,
> gran 1
> Processor eflags               = interrupt enable, IOPL = 0
> Current process                                = 0 (swapper)
> Trap number                      = 19
> Panic: non-maskable interrupt trap
> Uptime: 1s
> Automatic reboot in 15 seconds – press a key on the console to abort
>
> Hope you can enlighten me on this matter.
> Thank you and more power!
>
> Best Regards,
> RommelTan
>
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