When I boot the FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE CD, my system reliably kernel panics after 28 seconds. The message I get is "panic: general protection fault." Thinking I might have a bad CD, I downloaded and burned the DVD image. It gives the same result.
I'm currently running 7.2-RELEASE and I can get that to panic on boot if I leave any USB devices plugged in. Unplugging USB devices allows me to boot 7.2-RELEASE but has no effect on 8.0. Once booted, 7.2-RELEASE runs reliably. 8.0-RELEASE panics whether I have USB devices plugged in or not. I tried unplugging everything but the keyboard and monitor and 8.0-RELEASE still panics.
My system:
Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 940
8 GB Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5 RAM
GIGABYTE GV-R435OC-512I Radeon HD 4350 video card
Seagate Barracuda 250 GB SATA disk
Samsung SATA DVD burner
I booted in verbose mode but didn't see anything that provided a clue as to the problem. Any debugging suggestions would be appreciated.
I'm currently running 7.2-RELEASE and I can get that to panic on boot if I leave any USB devices plugged in. Unplugging USB devices allows me to boot 7.2-RELEASE but has no effect on 8.0. Once booted, 7.2-RELEASE runs reliably. 8.0-RELEASE panics whether I have USB devices plugged in or not. I tried unplugging everything but the keyboard and monitor and 8.0-RELEASE still panics.
My system:
Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 940
8 GB Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5 RAM
GIGABYTE GV-R435OC-512I Radeon HD 4350 video card
Seagate Barracuda 250 GB SATA disk
Samsung SATA DVD burner
I booted in verbose mode but didn't see anything that provided a clue as to the problem. Any debugging suggestions would be appreciated.