Compaq 1850R panics with 5.x

2003-11-10 Thread Guy Silliman
I am trying to get a Compaq 1850R running. It is a dual PII 400MHz machine that works fine with Win2k server... but I would prefer to use fbsd 5.x but I am stumped by this panic at sysinstall. I have searched all the lists and have tried several fixes mentioned including the Full table -

Re: Compaq 1850R panics with 5.x

2003-11-10 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Guy Silliman wrote: I am trying to get a Compaq 1850R running. It is a dual PII 400MHz machine that works fine with Win2k server... but I would prefer to use fbsd 5.x but I am stumped by this panic at sysinstall. Hi! Well, the old Compaqs have some quite rough edges,

Re: Compaq 1850R panics with 5.x

2003-11-10 Thread Guy Silliman
Thanks for the reply... I will give 4.8R a shot - I am trying to get 5.1R to work... but I will pass if it is too rough for production machines. I will also try that bios tweak. Guy Olaf Hoyer wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Guy Silliman wrote: I am trying to get a Compaq 1850R running. It

Re: Compaq 1850R panics with 5.x

2003-11-10 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Guy Silliman wrote: I am trying to get a Compaq 1850R running. It is a dual PII 400MHz machine that works fine with Win2k server... but I would prefer to use fbsd 5.x but I am stumped by this panic at sysinstall. I have searched all the lists and have tried several fixes mentioned including

Re: Compaq 1850R panics with 5.x

2003-11-10 Thread Guy Silliman
well I might have some insight into this mystery I am currently running with a less then fully populated drive cage... I have 2 of the 3 1 inch 9.1gb drives in place. I have had them placed in the slot 0 and slot 1 position. And win2k server loaded fine but fbsd did not see the drives.