unsupported mainboard?

[Vulpes Velox]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:15:40 +0200
Andreas Just <news at just-consulting.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> when I try to boot FreeBSD 5.2.1 from the install CD, I get the 
> following error:
> 
> panic: pmap_mapdev: Couldn't alloc kernel virtual memory
> 
> I assume, FreeBSD doesn't yet support my nForce2 chipset.
> If anyone has another idea or a hint, I'd appreciate it.

Possible CD problem. It should actually boot on nearly all i386
hardware afaik. Where you will run into probs is support for specific
devices.

Try with out ACPI, that some times helps, but I sorta doubt it will
here.