On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 09:28:27PM +1000, Paul Koch wrote: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:24 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Issue 1: Can't install on a Pentium P5 class machine: > > > > > > The install panics when installing the base stuff. No useful > > > messages are displayed accept the "panic: page fault" and rebooting > > > in 15 seconds. The machines are 10 year old DEC Pentiums, 32 to 64M > > > ram, IDE disks, etc. We have four of these in our test environment > > > and appear to install and run FreeBSD-5.4 fine. > > > > Try disabling ACPI. Many old systems have buggy ACPI > > implementations. Sometimes this can be fixed by a BIOS upgrade. > > A Pentium 150Mhz aged machine wouldn't have ACPI, would it ?
I don't know..nevertheless, please try it :) Kris
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