[geeks] FreeBSD advice please?

[Phil Stracchino]

Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
> there where some bugs in 7-STABLE before 7.1 was released which stopped 
> some from being able to boot off the CD.
> You might want to try disabling the HPET from the bios if that option is 
>   available to you.

I found a BIOS option to disable hyperthreading, and did so since I
don't really care that much about it anyway.

This morning, the 9500 is back to spewing errors (all I can catch is
something about tma0 and PCI and parity).


> Sevan / Venture37
> P.S if you're interested in trying ZFS on FreeBSD you'll need to use the 
> amd64 version, if your cpu's will support it.

ZFS is only supported on FreeBSD on AMD64?  If soi, I'm not going to get
very far with dual Intel Xeons then ...


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