Hi Guy Harrison,
you wrote.
>> Do you get the same result if booting without ACPI?
GH> Yes. I'm assuming here that the [default] boot option does not have ACPI
GH> enabled (if so, how to disable it?). The boot results are identical to
GH> when I select option 2 to boot with ACPI enabled.
> I too get a page fault when trying to boot from that ISO on a P3 1GHZ
> with SiS 630 chipset. I think my memory is fine as it ran through 10 memtest
runs
> without a single problem (my original motivation was to install 5.2.1
> on that box to check whether the weird MySQL issue really doesn't
> exist on Intel CPUs).
>
>
> It is fine on an Athlon XP2400 using VIA KT400 based mainboard though.
Not my month this - you name it, and its gone wrong, packed up, vanished or
plonked itself nicely into the bizarre category.
Fwiw, it appears I have a cheap Alladin V clone. Booting can be achieved by
disabling power management in the BIOS *plus* fiddling with an IRQ3 option
that I don't fully understand (can't get a decent bios manual). That'll get
the machine to boot.
Next problem manifests itself as dodgy ram - gcc & bz2 failures. Default CS
latency is "Auto" but setting it specifically to match the ram (CS=2)
improves things greatly. The north/south bridge chips don't match any
datasheet - iirc it appears one is off one particular release series, the
other off the next mobo release.
Finally nailed the remaining reliability problem down to UDMA. Moment I turned
it off, spurious faults went away and haven't re-occurred since. Obviously
this mobo is a pile of junk. On the off-chance there's useful info to be had,
here's how it fires up currently...
Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc09e3000.
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (350.80-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x580 Stepping = 0
Features=0x8001bf
AMD Features=0x8800
real memory = 201326592 (192 MB)
avail memory = 185921536 (177 MB)
npx0: [FAST]
npx0: on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00f7dd0
pcib0: at pcibus 0 on motherboard
pci0: on pcib0
pci_cfgintr: 0:14 INTA BIOS irq 11
pci_cfgintr: 0:16 INTA BIOS irq 10
pci_cfgintr: 0:18 INTA BIOS irq 9
agp0: mem 0xe000-0xe3ff at device 0.0
on pci0
pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: on pcib1
pci1: at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: on isab0
pci0: at device 14.0 (no driver attached)
atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device
15.0 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata0: [MPSAFE]
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
ata1: [MPSAFE]
vr0: port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem
0xdf00-0xdfff irq 10 at device 16.0 on pci0
vr0: Ethernet address: 00:40:f4:8c:7d:f8
miibus0: on vr0
ukphy0: on miibus0
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
ahc0: port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem
0xdfffd000-0xdfffdfff irq 9 at device 18.0 on pci0
aic7860: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs
orm0: at iomem 0xc8000-0xc87ff,0xc-0xc7fff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
atkbdc0: at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0
atkbd0: flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
fdc0: at port
0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppbus0: on ppc0
plip0: on ppbus0
lpt0: on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: on ppbus0
sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0x10
sio1: port may not be enabled
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0
unknown: can't assign resources (port)
unknown: can't assign resources (port)
unknown: can't assign resources (port)
unknown: can't assign resources (port)
unknown: can't assign resources (port)
unknown: can't assign resources (port)
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 350796635 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
GEOM: create disk ad0 dp=0xc26d6160
ad0: 114473MB [232581/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
acd0: DVDROM at ata0-slave PIO4
GEOM: create disk ad2 dp=0xc2733560
ad2: 6149MB [13328/15/63] at ata1-master UDMA33
acd1: CDRW at ata1-slave PIO4
Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s4a
[snip]
I wouldn't mind a hint on the audio side? Card used to work fine in another
machine running 4.7-REL (Ensoniq AudioPCI). I'm a bi
