Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-03-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Mayfield wrote: Next, Use "Load Fail-Safe Defaults" and try FreeBSD. This worked. It booted fine, I got FreeBSD set up, X set up, some programs set up and sound working after going back into the BIOS and turning sound and USB and other vital stuff back on. I'm only running into a few

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-28 Thread Alex Mayfield
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 2/24/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alex Mayfield wrote: I have tried both the 6.1 and 5.4 CD's, both of them bombing at the exact same point the 6.0 boot failed. I'll try 5.5 sometime tomorrow, though I kinda doubt it would make a difference. Is there

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/24/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Mayfield wrote: > > > I have tried both the 6.1 and 5.4 CD's, both of them bombing at the > > exact same point the 6.0 boot failed. I'll try 5.5 sometime tomorrow, > > though I kinda doubt it would make a difference. Is there anything > >

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Mayfield wrote: I have tried both the 6.1 and 5.4 CD's, both of them bombing at the exact same point the 6.0 boot failed. I'll try 5.5 sometime tomorrow, though I kinda doubt it would make a difference. Is there anything else I can try? If 6.1 and 5.4 fail then it seems really likely

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-23 Thread Alex Mayfield
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Your not using the right install CDs. You have an AMD 64-Bit chip so you can't (AFAIK) use the I386 Release. Maybe there is a setting in the BIOS for I386 compat, I have no experience with AMD's 64-Bit chips so this is just a guess. Or try disabling AC

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nikolas Britton wrote: I see, do the Intel EMT-64 chips use the amd64 release too? And what did he mean by "certain programs being unavalable for amd64", what are the major ones? There seems to be an IA-64 which I guess is Intel. Only buy AMD chips myself, so I'm a bit hazy on that. I'm su

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/23/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > >Your not using the right install CDs. You have an AMD 64-Bit chip so > >you can't (AFAIK) use the I386 Release. Maybe there is a setting in > >the BIOS for I386 compat, I have no experience with AMD's 64-Bit chips > >

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nikolas Britton wrote: Your not using the right install CDs. You have an AMD 64-Bit chip so you can't (AFAIK) use the I386 Release. Maybe there is a setting in the BIOS for I386 compat, I have no experience with AMD's 64-Bit chips so this is just a guess. Or try disabling ACPI and everything els

Re: Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/22/06, Alex Mayfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm rather new to FreeBSD, and have been wanting to try it out. However, > I am unable to boot from either the i386 6.0-RELEASE bootonly or the i386 > 6.0-RELEASE disc 1 CD. I'm running an Athlon 64 3000+ on a WinFast > 755FXK8AA motherboard

Can't seem to boot from 6.0-RELEASE

2006-02-22 Thread Alex Mayfield
I'm rather new to FreeBSD, and have been wanting to try it out. However, I am unable to boot from either the i386 6.0-RELEASE bootonly or the i386 6.0-RELEASE disc 1 CD. I'm running an Athlon 64 3000+ on a WinFast 755FXK8AA motherboard (Socket 939, SiS 755 North Bridge, SiS 964 South Brid