Trouble installing FreeBSD on a Dell Precision 210?

[Derek Ragona]

You can low level format any hard drive.  Just go to the manufacturer's 
website and download the utility.

         -Derek


At 05:30 PM 5/26/2006, Gerard Seibert wrote:
>Derek Ragona wrote:
>
> > If you have nothing of value on the hard drive, I would suggest low-level
> > formatting the drive, then verify the boot order is CD first.
> >
> >          -Derek
> >
> >
> > At 04:22 PM 5/26/2006, Jason Curole wrote:
> > >Hello all,
> > >
> > >I am a newbie to FreeBSD, though I currently use Mac OS X and am
> > >reasonably comfortable with the unix side.  I am trying to install
> > >FreeBSD on a Dell Precision 210 machine (scrounged it up recently and
> > >it has a huge hard drive, otherwise I don't know much about it).  I
> > >have tried installation with FreeBSD Release 6.0 and 6.1 (both the
> > >full cd and boot-only cd for 6.0; just the boot-only cd for 6.1).
> > >The machine boots and I get to the screen where I can select my boot
> > >option.  I select 5, (boot with detailed messaging) and the machine
> > >goes through some SMAP messages, a couple of Copyrights and a Free- BSD
> > >claimer with an email address.  It pauses here for a good
> > >10-15min.  Then I get messages regarding preloading of "elf kernel",
> > >"mfs_root" and "elf module", followed by tables 'FACP' and 'APIC',
> > >"MADT: Found table at ...", "APIC: Using the MADT enumerator", then:
> > >
> > >MADT: Found CPU APIC ID 0 ACPI ID 1: enabled
> > >MADT: Found CPU APIC ID 1 ACPI ID 2: disabled
> > >
> > >It has remained at this point for at least a half-hour (through
> > >lunch, etc.), no lights flashing and does not respond to the enter
> > >key.  Is this normal?  I should mention that between the attempt at
> > >installing 6.0 (about 4 weeks ago) and 6.1 I had installed OpenBSD
> > >and it appeared to install and work fine, so I think the machine is
> > >okay.
> > >
> > >Jason
>
>I did not think it was possible to low level format a modern HD.
>
>
>--
>Gerard Seibert
>gerard at seibercom.net
>
>
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>
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