On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 06:37:30PM -0500, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > I'm having great difficulty with 5.2.1-RC2. I installed from an ISO just > this afternoon. Getting the installer running wasn't easy. I tried all of > the usual tricks that have worked for me in the past under 5.1-RELEASE and > 5.2-RELEASE: > > - set hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1 > - disabling ACPI > > But none of that helped. Without ACPI, my kernel would panic before starting > sysinstall's device detection (somewhere before the keyboard probe). And WITH > ACPI it would get further - to the sysinstall device detection screen, but > promptly panic. Finally, I got it to install 5.2.1-RC2 by selecting "safe mode" > from the loader menu. We can't do much without at least a transcription of the panic. > hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 > > Perhaps my hw.ata.atapi_dma line is breaking things? Certainly possible, because that's non-default and unsupported by a lot of hardware. Kris
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