Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0

[Jack Raats]

From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot at gmail.com>

> 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 booting in verbose mode?
> If so, does it give any further output after printing the GEOM_LABEL for
> the other drives?

Verbose mode does not give much more information. It tells the info of the 
CD rom drives, after which it stops.
Strange thing is that installing ubuntu doesn't give any trouble.

Checking the hardware doesn't give any failures. Memory is OK.

Thanks for your time
Jack