6.0-Release sysinstall panic.

[Joel Dahl]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 19:57 +0100, Tanel Rebane wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm trying to install FBSD 6.0-Release on one of my servers. The  
> server, with the same hardware, has been running FBSD 5.4-Stable just  
> fine. The problem is that every time I try to install FBSD 6.0- 
> Release the system crashes when trying to extract base into /, the  
> crashes seem to occur at random point into the progress.
> 
> I've tried as much as I can think of, as disabling the onboard USB,  
> IEEE1394, LAN, audio and FDD from BIOS. I've also tried to boot  
> without support for ACPI and underclocked the Athlon XP-M 2600+ to  
> 800MHz to minimize any hardware faults. The system should be stable  
> as it has no problem running both prime and memtest86 without faults  
> for 7+ days.

Have you tried the latest snapshots of 6.0-STABLE?

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/Jan_2006/

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Joel - joel at FreeBSD dot org