Re: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE not bootable on a Dell Latitude D510
John Nielsen <[email protected]>
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On Wednesday 03 August 2005 01:56, Trond Endrestøl wrote: > Hi all, > > I received a Dell Latitude D510 yesterday and I wanted to boot FreeBSD > 5.4-RELEASE from the computer's DVD drive. > > However, the booting process stopped abruptly with the following > messages: > > fwohci0: EUI64 36:4f:c0:00:07:ce:d8:30 > NMI ISA b0, EISA ff > RAM parity error, likely hardware failure. I saw the same thing on the same hardware. (The RAM was fine.) Since I was booting into FreeBSD as a diagnostic measure and not to do an installation, I didn't pursue the matter much further. I _think_ I was able to boot from a FreeBSD 5.2.1 CD. (I don't remember if I tried 5.3 or not.) That might be the easiest approach, followed by an upgrarde from source with a custom (non-firewire) kernel. If all else fails, you can build a kernel without firewire on another machine, make your own CD, and boot from that. I'm not sure if a PR has been filed for this or not, or if the problem persists in 6.0-BETA1. JN _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"