DragonFlyBSD install issue on quad-core AMD64

Saifi Khan saifi.khan at datasynergy.org
Wed Mar 17 06:38:13 PDT 2010


On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Saifi Khan wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Saifi Khan wrote:
> 
> > Hi:
> > 
> > DragonFlyBSD 2.4.1 CD image for AMD64 is being used for 
> > installation on a quad-core AMD64 Athlon II X4 630 C2 with a 
> > single 500GB SATA disk and 4GB DDR3 RAM.
> > 
> > The boot loader comes up fine and in selecting either of the two 
> > options, ie. boot with ACPI disabled or otherwise, the same 
> > error "iso_mountroot: can't find rootvp" !
> > 
> > Please see the photo here:
> > http://i818.photobucket.com/albums/zz107/saifikhan/dragonfly/DSC00066.jpg
> > 
> > Is there a workaround to this issue ?
> > 
> > --
> > thanks
> > Saifi.
> > 
> 
> The issue above is also seen with the DragonFlyBSD Feb 24, 2010 
> snapshot !
> 
> 

FreeBSD 9-CURRENT 201002 feb snapshot for AMD64 installs 
absolutely fine on the quad-core machine. So do OpenSolaris 
nevada build and OpenSuSe 11.2 !


--
thanks
Saifi.





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