Re: 6.0 Release - Pentium install panic and some questions

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 11/21/05

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    Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 04:24:48 -0500
To: Paul Koch <paul.koch@statseeker.com>

    On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 03:20:25PM +1000, Paul Koch wrote:
    > Hi, we are having a number of issues with 6.0-Release.
    >
    > Our setup: We have ~40 machines in a development test environment,
    > ranging from P5/150Mhz/32M ram/IDE, PII Celerons, P3, P4, single and
    > dual processor setups.
    >
    >
    > 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.

    > hints "./device.hints"
    > machine i386
    > cpu I586_CPU
    > cpu I686_CPU
    > ident RNA_KERNEL
    > options SCHED_ULE

    You probably want 4BSD, since ULE is slower on many workloads.

    Kris

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