Can't boot 5.3-RELEASE installation CD

[Mike Jakubik]

Hendrik Hasenbein said:

> Mike Jakubik wrote:
>> Computer reboots at this point. The CD seems to boot fine if i disable
>> the
>> onboard RAID controller, however i need to install on it. I've tried
>> toggling the different SATA modes, as well as disabling the other SATA
>> controller, but nothing helps. I told my client that FreeBSD will run on
>> this system as the PDC20378 is listed as supported in the hardware
>> notes,
>> and now im stuck. Whats going on here?
>
> Do you have the newest BIOS for the board? Some older BIOS versions had
> problems with the onboard SATA controller.

Yes, have the latest BIOS. To get around this problem i had to boot off of
a floppy instead the CDROM. There is something wrong with the CD BOOT
code.