Help required installing 5.2.1

[Jorn Argelo]

Andrew Walrond wrote:

>I have tried unsuccessfully to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 from downloaded isos.
>
>I have the i386 isos, but the first machine I tried was an Asus SK8N 
>motherboard with Amd Opteron and 2Gb ram. The various hardware is shown as 
>supported on the Hardware list; notably the Promise SATA150 TX2 disk 
>controller.
>
>Although this is an Amd64, I assume the 386 version should still install OK?
>
>Anyhow, I booted from cd disk 1, went through the various questions, auto 
>partitioned and it began "Extracting ... into / directory". This went well 
>for a few minutes, lots of disk activity, then
>	Panic - page fault
>	CPUID 0
>
>and was informed that the machine would reboot after 15seconds.
>
>I tried again, this time booting without ACPI, with the same results.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Andrew Walrond
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My AMD64 machine couldn't even boot from the i386 install CD. A kernel 
panic when it's booting. Not that that matters, since the AMD64 version 
is working just fine :)

It's quite strange though, since the AMD folks promised complete 
backwards compatiblity with the i386 architecture. Or they only 
guarantee it for Bill's software, which is also a possibility.