Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-09 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: After doing some more research, it seems that I am having the same problem than described by this person: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4502 So you get the same file system full message and then a panic

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-09 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Feb 8, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Going nowhere without my init cpuid = 1 Does anyone know what can be causing this and how to solve it? I don't suppose you built a custom kernel without the COMPAT_FREEBSD7 option? You need it until you

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-09 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
About this problem, I have seen that in the past there have been problem with libdisk when a WinXP partition had an invalid name. Could it be something like that that could be causing this error? I guess the problem occurs somewhere in the Open_Disk function of libdisk, right? Should I be able

FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-08 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I have a hard time booting FreeBSD 8.0 on one of my machines. It is an older Pentium with HyperThreading. It was running fine with 7.2 but the kernel crashed after a buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel/reboot of 8.0. I had not updated FreeBSD on that machine for a while so I decided to

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-08 Thread Peter C. Lai
Well try turning off ACPI, HyperThreading, etc.? On 2010-02-08 09:01:28PM -0500, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hi, I have a hard time booting FreeBSD 8.0 on one of my machines. It is an older Pentium with HyperThreading. It was running fine with 7.2 but the kernel crashed after a

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-08 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
After doing some more research, it seems that I am having the same problem than described by this person: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4502 however I really don't understand why I would need to move partitions around to allow the installer to even start? This machine has 2GB of

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: After doing some more research, it seems that I am having the same problem than described by this person: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4502 So you get the same file system full message and then a panic about init? however I really

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Feb 8, 2010, at 6:01 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Going nowhere without my init cpuid = 1 Does anyone know what can be causing this and how to solve it? I don't suppose you built a custom kernel without the COMPAT_FREEBSD7 option? You need it until you get a new R8 userland and all