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by **Darren Welso** » Mon, 16 Jun 2003 01:38:17

cross-posted because I am desperate...
I am running the following:
ASUS MB P4SDX, P4 2.66 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, and a GeForce4 Ti 4800 video
card. This MB has a SiS 900 NIC on-board. I had a Iomega Zip-100
connected, but disconnected during install.

I can install FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE, but want to upgrade to 4.5+.

When I install 4.5-RELEASE, I can get as far as "Probing Devices, please
wait..."

When I install 5.0-RELEASE, my system hangs and gives several errors
including "Fatal Trap 9: GPF while in kernel mode" and the more common
"ata0: resetting devices...".

I have tried the recommended fix to address certain CD-ROM drives, "set
hw.ata.ata_dma="1"", but still no good.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what could be causing this and what I need
to do to upgrade?

by **Erik Nygre** » Mon, 16 Jun 2003 03:57:07

> cross-posted because I am desperate...
> I am running the following:
> ASUS MB P4SDX, P4 2.66 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, and a GeForce4 Ti 4800 video
> card. This MB has a SiS 900 NIC on-board. I had a Iomega Zip-100
> connected, but disconnected during install.

> I can install FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE, but want to upgrade to 4.5+.

> When I install 4.5-RELEASE, I can get as far as "Probing Devices, please
> wait..."

Try 4.8. Lot's of things have changed since 4.5, and chipset support is
one of them I think.

Quote:> When I install 5.0-RELEASE, my system hangs and gives several errors
> including "Fatal Trap 9: GPF while in kernel mode" and the more common
> "ata0: resetting devices...".

You might try 5.1, quite a few quirks from 5.0 have been worked out (and
still some remains, I would think)

--
Erik Nygren
e r i k { a t } s w i p { d o t } n e t
Linux - If you hate Microsoft, FreeBSD - If you love Unix

by **Darren Welso** » Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:40:27

Based on your recommendation to try 5.1-RELEASE, I downloaded and very
successfully installed 5.1. In fact, I am pleased with how well it
installed and I really like the obvious changes between 4.X and the 5.X
series.
Thanks for the tip.

Darren

> > cross-posted because I am desperate...
> > I am running the following:
> > ASUS MB P4SDX, P4 2.66 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, and a GeForce4 Ti 4800 video
> > card. This MB has a SiS 900 NIC on-board. I had a Iomega Zip-100
> > connected, but disconnected during install.

> > I can install FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE, but want to upgrade to 4.5+.

> > When I install 4.5-RELEASE, I can get as far as "Probing Devices, please
> > wait..."

> Try 4.8. Lot's of things have changed since 4.5, and chipset support is
> one of them I think.

> > When I install 5.0-RELEASE, my system hangs and gives several errors
> > including "Fatal Trap 9: GPF while in kernel mode" and the more common
> > "ata0: resetting devices...".

> You might try 5.1, quite a few quirks from 5.0 have been worked out (and
> still some remains, I would think)

> --
> Erik Nygren
> e r i k { a t } s w i p { d o t } n e t
> Linux - If you hate Microsoft, FreeBSD - If you love Unix

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trouble installing 4.5 and 5.0 -RELEASE on ASUS MB

trouble installing 4.5 and 5.0 -RELEASE on ASUS MB

trouble installing 4.5 and 5.0 -RELEASE on ASUS MB

trouble installing 4.5 and 5.0 -RELEASE on ASUS MB