Unable to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a SMP box

Ramiro Aceves ea1abz at wanadoo.es
Tue Jan 18 10:23:23 PST 2005


stheg olloydson wrote:
> it was said:
> 
> 
>>>Hi there
>>>I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a dual p3 box:
>>>asus cuv4x-d mobo
>>>adaptec AHA-2940 uw and 29160
> 
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>/boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x3fbfc data=0x1c04+0x112c
>>syms=[0x4+0x72f0+0x4+0x97c7]
>>
>>int=0000000d  err=00000000  efl=00030246  eip=0000ffff
>>eax=8000f000  ebx=00000000  ecx=0000feff  edx=00000082
>>esi=00000002  edi=0000000c  ebp=00000002  esp=0000fffc
>>cs=cc00  ds=9ec0  es=44ac    fs=0000  gs=0000  ss=9d58
>>cs:eip=ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>      ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>ss:esp=ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>      ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
>>BTX halted
>>

Hello,

Just my little experience, in case it is useful:

I could see that kind of message twice here when I installed FreeBSD in 
my old pentium machines:

1- The floppy disk was bad. So, check a new iso.
2- Using memory banks not supported by the motherboard. (Have you ran a 
memtest?)

Ramiro Aceves.

EA1ABZ






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