I attempted the installation again (BTW, this is a Silicon Image controller on-board -- SOYO Dragon Platinum) and got this error: panic: mtx_lock() of spin mutex <some gibberish chars> /usr/src/sys/sys/buf.h:282 cpuid = 0; Debugger("panic") Stopped at Debugger+0x46: xchgl %ebx,in_Debugger.0 (forgot to include this in my initial message) _F