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 just a guess. Or try disabling ACPI and everything else in > >the BIOS etc... That's the price you pay for being an early adopter, > >you don't need nvidia gfx for an Opteron server. > > > > > This is not correct. An i386 version of FreeBSD runs just dandy on > 64-bit Athlons (or 64 bit Intel for that matter) even if this release is > failing on this specific system. All current 64-bit "PC" processors are > backwards compatible with i386. > > I would try the i386 6.1 PRERELEASE CD, the 5.4 RELEASE and the 5.5 > PRERELEASE in order and see if any of them worked. Or try limiting your > google by including the sis 754 and see if finds any help. There are > mentions of 754 problems being fixed in 6-STABLE but I didn't look > closely enough to know if they would help you. >
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? -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"