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Jin Guojun[ITG]May 19, 1997 11:04 am 
Jin Guojun[ITG]May 21, 1997 5:38 pm 
Brett GlassMay 21, 1997 6:20 pm 
Subject:Re: ASUS P/I-P65UP5 + C-P55T2D dual Pentium MB
From:Jin Guojun[ITG] (ji@george.lbl.gov)
Date:May 21, 1997 5:38:02 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-hardware

Has any one successfully installed FreeBSD on an ASUS P/I-P65UP5 dual Pentium motherboard with C-P55T2D (two 200 MHz Pentium CPU) daughter board?

I had a memory problem on this motherboard. The same memory was used for ASUS P/I-P55TVP4 and TX97-E single Pentium 200 MHz CPU motherboards without any problem. They are 60 ns non-parity SIMM. However, the same hareware with just a different motherboard, the page fault occurred when system swithed to VM mode during the installation; that is, when installation passed all probing and switched to graphic installation menu. Does this imply I have a defective motherboard? or are some special setup required for VM start up? More info., this motherboard does not work for other UN*X system either.

I'm running a P65UP5 and I think the same CPU card, ok with FreeBSD in SMP mode.

It was not the motherboard's problem. It is the 2.2.2-RELEASE boot.flp bug. The problem is very strange:

NCR-810 SCSI controller + 3-Quantum Fireball 3.2 GB disks causes page fault

NCR-810 SCSI controller + 2-Quantum Fireball 3.2 GB disks works OK.

After installation, put 3-Quantum Fireball 3.2 GB disks back on the SCSI bus, no more page fault.

Also, the 2.2.2-RELEASE installation failed to set the hostname and all network info. (such as ifconfig_ed1, defaultrouter etc.) into the /etc/rc.conf.

Another problem in the 2.2.2-RELEASE is that the YP (NIS) client is broken. I remember someone reported YP server is broken. So, it looks like entire YP is broken.

Since I cannot make a 2.2.2 machine up, therefore, I use the regular email instead of send-pr to report all problems at this time.

Thanks,

-Jin