6.2-REL w/ SuperMicro Pentium D board, installer problem?

2007-01-22 Thread chris neill
It is my understanding that the new Dualcore Pentiums fall under the auspices of the AMD64 port.. Anywho, whenever I try to run the bootonly installer, the boot stalls here: acd0: CDROM Compaq CRN-8245B/1.16 at ata0-slave PIO4 If I run from an i386 kernel, everything is hunky-dorey. From

Re: 6.2-REL w/ SuperMicro Pentium D board, installer problem?

2007-01-24 Thread chris neill
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:16:22PM -0500, chris neill wrote: It is my understanding that the new Dualcore Pentiums fall under the auspices of the AMD64 port.. Anywho, whenever I try to run the bootonly installer, the boot stalls here: acd0: CDROM Compaq CRN-8245B/1.16 at ata0-slave PIO4

Re: 6.2-REL w/ SuperMicro Pentium D board, installer problem?

2007-01-24 Thread chris neill
I can boot the AMD64 GENERIC kernel if I disable APCI from the loader menu. This appears to be a legitimate bug, so I guess I'm going to submit my dmesg / etc to the AMD64 folks.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-25 Thread chris neill
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:11:53PM +, Robin Becker wrote: Robin Becker wrote: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm unfortunately they already closed the applications so I guess FreeBSD will have to remain partially

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread chris neill
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:41:19AM -0500, David Robillard wrote: My personal experience with Dell is that it's ok until you hit a problem. Then it's hell. So bad, in fact, that we don't purchase them anymore and have gone with IBM and HP systems for our FreeBSD, RedHat and Windows machines.

Re: how to access /stand after the package installed

2007-01-26 Thread chris neill
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:12:37AM -0500, Douglas Song wrote: How can I access /stand directory in FreeBSD 6.2 using postinstall script of the customerized package? I can do that in Freebsd 5.3. It moved: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [8:49am](2):72:/root# which sysinstall /usr/sbin/sysinstall [EMAIL