Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0

Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Tue Dec 23 19:19:52 UTC 2008


On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Jack Raats <jack at jarasoft.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At this moment I have problems installing FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 7.0.
> After booting from CD the system I get the menu. I have tried all possible options.
> The system starts checking all hardware but freezes after finding the CD-ROM drives printing the GEOM_LABLE (on FB 7.0, not 6.4)
> (acd0)
>
> The hardware is a Targa Visonary 2700XP, AMD 2700+ CPU, mem 1 GB
>
> Can anyone help me. I never had this problems before on other systems.
>

Have you tried disabling DMA or ACPI?

hw.ata.ata_dma=0


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Glen Barber


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