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
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
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
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
else I can
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
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
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
so this is
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
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
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
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