Problem with AMD-Sempron ?

[Uzi Klein]

Low Kian Seong wrote:
> Dear People, 
> 
> I tried numerous times to install FreeBSD-5.3-Release
> on a AMD-Sempron machine without success. The install
> completes without a hitch but during reboot, it
> complaints that no no system disc was found.

Are you sure you followed all the steps in HDD configuration and set the 
bootable flag for the partition?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html

> Booting from other machines with different cpus is okay. 
> 
> The specs of the cpu is : 
> 
> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 8
> model name      : AMD Sempron(tm)   2200+
> stepping        : 1
> cpu MHz         : 1501.031
> cache size      : 256 KB
> 
> Is this a known bug ? Does 5.4 address this issue ?
> 
> 
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