Ibook G3 Clamshell : FreeBSD 8.2 installation hangs

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:54:52 +0200
Charles Séjourné <charles.s0982 at gmail.com> wrote:

> But, the installation hangs at another moment :
> Code:
> acd0: CDROM <MATSHITA CR-176/6AA1> at ata1-master WDMA2
> Google didn't find anything, and I don't know how to resolve that. I thought the cause might be the cd player, which may be dead, but I'm not sure at all.

You can try to turn off DMA for the ATAPI device (CDROM) from the boot loader:
set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0
It helped me on a G5.

HTH
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Torfinn