6.0 Release - Pentium install panic and some questions

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:25:31 +1000
Paul Koch <paul.koch at statseeker.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:03 am, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 09:28:27PM +1000, Paul Koch wrote:
> > > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:24 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > > > Issue 1: Can't install on a Pentium P5 class machine:
> > > > >
> > > > > The install panics when installing the base stuff. No useful
> > > > > messages are displayed accept the "panic: page fault" and
> > > > > rebooting in 15 seconds. The machines are 10 year old DEC
> > > > > Pentiums, 32 to 64M ram, IDE disks, etc. We have four of these
> > > > > in our test environment and appear to install and run
> > > > > FreeBSD-5.4 fine.
> > > >
> > > > Try disabling ACPI.  Many old systems have buggy ACPI
> > > > implementations. Sometimes this can be fixed by a BIOS upgrade.
> > >
> > > A Pentium 150Mhz aged machine wouldn't have ACPI, would it ?
> >
> > I don't know..nevertheless, please try it :)
> >
> > Kris
> 
> Ok, a bit of confusion here.  When booting from floppy on these 
> machines, the option is to "Boot FreeBSD with ACPI enabled", while on 
> other machines it says "Boot FreeBSD with ACPI disabled".  Looks like 
> this is from beastie.4th.  We tried both options and it still panics 
> when it is extracting base (ie. you can partition, newfs, etc...
> using sysinstall). It gets about 2% of the way through extracting
> base.

AFAIR (haven't look at the code, just what I remeber from installing on
some old machines w/o ACPI) the first machines have ACPI the second
don't.



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