6.0 STABLE install locks up within a few minutes

[Brown, Steve]

By the way, the issue was gone when I installed to one of the IDE drives.

FreeBSD 6 must not like my SATA controller.  At least it tries though.  Red
Hat 9 and Solaris 10 would not recongnize it at all during installation.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Brown, Steve
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 3:25 PM
To: FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)
Subject: 6.0 STABLE install locks up within a few minutes


Hello everyone,
 
I'm trying to get v6.0-STABLE installed on a PC that is running Windows (XP
Pro) now.  The hardware is very stable with Windows, it's just bogged down
with all the updates and third-party apps you need to keep it that way.  I'm
running FreeBSD in other systems but haven't tried this newer version yet.
However, the system locks up at a different place everytime I attempt the
install.  It seems completely random.  Sometimes I get to where it's mostly
configured and I'm adding ported apps and sometimes it doesn't run long
enough to get to that point.  Once it locks up, it will not respond to any
input.  
 
More often than not, the lock up happens when I'm adding ported apps so I
tried the obvious - not loading any.  After getting it booted up that way
(which I'm able to do argueably because of the short amount of uptime) it
will still lock up after 5-10 miutes of messing around with it.  I have also
tried skipping over configuring and bringing up the Ethernet interface but
it will still lock up.  It seems like no matter what it doing, when it locks
up is determined by the amount of uptime which varies from 5 to 10 minutes
or so.
 
I have tried booting the "without ACPI" option and it won't even boot up
that way due to some IRQ 19 error.  Normally I see no real problems on the
screen during bootup.
 
I'm running the Gigabyte 7N400-L motherboard with NForce2 chipset + Corsair
XMS DDR + AMD XP+ 3200 cpu + ATi RADEON 9600 Pro 256MB + SATA PCI add-on
card w/ (2) SATA HDDs + (2) ATA HDDs
 
Shouldn't this system be fully supported?
 
I'm going to try this again tonight without the SATA drives to see if that's
the issue.

Any other ideas would be appreciated.

Steve