[geeks] Tyan and FreeBSD

[Sevan / Venture37]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> For those keeping track:
> 
> I got my hands on some known-good 3.5" floppies and DOS boot images
> today (http://www.bootdisk.com) and successfully flashed the BIOS on the
> Tyan i7320R to S5350-v1.08, the latest BIOS for that board.  It still
> will not boot FreeBSD 7.1R amd64 (with or without ACPI), and still fails
> at exactly the same point, a hang forever at "attempting to load root
> image from mfsroot".  I have verified once again that the CD is a
> faithful duplicate of the ISO.  The fact that it'll run OpenBSD 4.4
> amd64 perfectly happily should be sufficient proof that the CPUs are
> indeed 64-bit, so it *should* be happily booting 7.1R-amd64.
> 
> Is this something I should report to the FreeBSD folks, and if so,
> what's the preferred procedure?
> 
> 

Hi Phil
That's a shame it still isn't working, join the freebsd-hardware list & 
post the problem there
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware

Sevan / Venture37