Hi Guy Harrison,
you wrote.
Do you get the same result if booting without ACPI?
GH Yes. I'm assuming here that the [default] boot option does not have ACPI
GH enabled (if so, how to disable it?). The boot results are identical to
GH when I select option 2 to boot with ACPI enabled.
I too get a page fault when trying to boot from that ISO on a P3 1GHZ
with SiS 630 chipset. I think my memory is fine as it ran through 10 memtest
runs
without a single problem (my original motivation was to install 5.2.1
on that box to check whether the weird MySQL issue really doesn't
exist on Intel CPUs).
It is fine on an Athlon XP2400 using VIA KT400 based mainboard though.
Not my month this - you name it, and its gone wrong, packed up, vanished or
plonked itself nicely into the bizarre category.
Fwiw, it appears I have a cheap Alladin V clone. Booting can be achieved by
disabling power management in the BIOS *plus* fiddling with an IRQ3 option
that I don't fully understand (can't get a decent bios manual). That'll get
the machine to boot.
Next problem manifests itself as dodgy ram - gcc bz2 failures. Default CS
latency is Auto but setting it specifically to match the ram (CS=2)
improves things greatly. The north/south bridge chips don't match any
datasheet - iirc it appears one is off one particular release series, the
other off the next mobo release.
Finally nailed the remaining reliability problem down to UDMA. Moment I turned
it off, spurious faults went away and haven't re-occurred since. Obviously
this mobo is a pile of junk. On the off-chance there's useful info to be had,
here's how it fires up currently...
Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Preloaded elf kernel /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xc09e3000.
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (350.80-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x580 Stepping = 0
Features=0x8001bfFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX
AMD Features=0x8800SYSCALL,3DNow!
real memory = 201326592 (192 MB)
avail memory = 185921536 (177 MB)
npx0: [FAST]
npx0: math processor on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00f7dd0
pcib0: AcerLabs M1541 (Aladdin-V) PCI host bridge at pcibus 0 on motherboard
pci0: PCI bus on pcib0
pci_cfgintr: 0:14 INTA BIOS irq 11
pci_cfgintr: 0:16 INTA BIOS irq 10
pci_cfgintr: 0:18 INTA BIOS irq 9
agp0: Ali M1541 host to AGP bridge mem 0xe000-0xe3ff at device 0.0
on pci0
pcib1: PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: PCI bus on pcib1
pci1: display, VGA at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: ISA bus on isab0
pci0: multimedia, audio at device 14.0 (no driver attached)
atapci0: AcerLabs Aladdin UDMA33 controller port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device
15.0 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata0: [MPSAFE]
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
ata1: [MPSAFE]
vr0: VIA VT6105 Rhine III 10/100BaseTX port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem
0xdf00-0xdfff irq 10 at device 16.0 on pci0
vr0: Ethernet address: 00:40:f4:8c:7d:f8
miibus0: MII bus on vr0
ukphy0: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface on miibus0
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
ahc0: Adaptec 2940A Ultra SCSI adapter port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem
0xdfffd000-0xdfffdfff irq 9 at device 18.0 on pci0
aic7860: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs
orm0: Option ROMs at iomem 0xc8000-0xc87ff,0xc-0xc7fff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
atkbdc0: Keyboard controller (i8042) at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0
atkbd0: AT Keyboard flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
fdc0: Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone) at port
0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: 1440-KB 3.5 drive on fdc0 drive 0
ppc0: Parallel port at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppbus0: Parallel port bus on ppc0
plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0
lpt0: Printer on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0
sc0: System console at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA 16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0x10
sio1: port may not be enabled
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0
unknown: PNP0303 can't assign resources (port)
unknown: PNP0a03 can't assign resources (port)
unknown: PNP0501 can't assign resources (port)
unknown: PNP0501 can't assign resources (port)
unknown: PNP0400 can't assign resources (port)
unknown:
