4.9 or 5.1 install

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 10:19:52PM -0500, i valdes wrote:
> i go through the install process of either os, however when i boot, 
> after the post install, the boot  process panics and stops with the 
> comment "contigmalloc1: size must not be 0". what is this referring to? 
> i have read the install instructions at the fbsd site and a free bsd 
> book i bought but cannot find reference to this item. thanks for ur help.

Does your system use an Acer Aladdin chipset -- that's the ALi driver?
There's an open bug report about that chipset resulting in panics
similar to what you've seen:

    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=47167

You'll see a line like:

    agp0: <Ali Generic host to PCI bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff at device
      0.0 on pci0

right before the panic line.  The only advice is to try disabling ACPI
on boot, but there's no indication that actually helps.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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