6.0 Release - Pentium install panic and some questions

[Kris Kennaway]

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
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