amd64/79813: Will not install/run on amd64 nForce 4 platform

[Ottoman]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/79813; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ottoman <ottoman at ozen.co.uk>
To: David Dahlquist <dave.dahlquist at gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: amd64/79813: Will not install/run on amd64 nForce 4 platform
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:37:23 +0100

 David Dahlquist wrote:
 
 >>Number:         79813
 >>Category:       amd64
 >>Synopsis:       Will not install/run on amd64 nForce 4 platform
 >>Confidential:   no
 >>Severity:       critical
 >>Priority:       medium
 >>Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
 >>State:          open
 >>Quarter:        
 >>Keywords:       
 >>Date-Required:
 >>Class:          sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 12 04:40:24 GMT 2005
 >>Closed-Date:
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator:     David Dahlquist
 >>Release:        5.4 RC1
 >>Organization:
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 >n/a
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 >>Environment:
 >>Description:
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 >Free BSD will not install on my amd64 nForce 4 based platform.  I think it is a problem with the pci express platform.  I have also had this problem with linux distro's.        
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 >
 
 David,
 
 I have FreeBSD running on Asus A8nSLI deluxe mobo.  The only way I got 
 it going was to disable ACPI during installation (then I took it out of 
 kernel).
 
 I hope this helps.
 
 Omer.