Problem installing FreeBSD 5.4

Pieter Baele pieter.baele at telenet.be
Mon May 16 04:58:30 PDT 2005


I want to install freebsd maybe as a replacement for (gentoo) linux (on
the long term), but I am experiencing some problems.

The booting process (kernel) of the installation media just halts.
I've tried with acpi off but this didn't help. 
I thin it has something to do with ata/ide

Verbose output gives me errors like these 

(probe0:ata0:0:0:0): error 22
(probe0:ata0:0:0:0): Unretryable Error
(probe1:ata0:0:1:0): error 22
(probe1:ata0:0:1:0): Unretryable Error
(probe0:ata0:0:0:0): error 22
(probe0:ata0:0:0:0): Unretryable Error
(probe1:ata0:0:1:0): error 22
(probe1:ata0:0:1:0): Unretryable Error
(probe3:ata1:0:1:0): error 22
(probe3:ata1:0:1:0): Unretryable Error
(probe3:ata1:0:1:0): error 22
(probe3:ata1:0:1:0): Unretryable Error
(probe2:ata1:0:0:0): error 22
(probe2:ata1:0:0:0): Unretryable Error
(probe2:ata1:0:0:0): error 6
(probe2:ata1:0:0:0): Unretryable Error
(probe2:ata1:0:0:0): error 22
(probe2:ata1:0:0:0): Unretryable Error

(source: 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-September/038318.html)


My hardware:

amd athlon 2500+
asus a7n8x (latest bios) 
120GB IBM IDE - ATA harddisk
dvd-writer plextor + cdrom drive
geforce4 ti GPU
...

I just want to run bsd ;)

memtest gives me some errors so I think there is a ram module with some
faults... (but I don't think this has something to do with it???)



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