6.X wont boot on Dell XPS 700 (fwd)

[Frank]

I got no response on the -stable list so I am forwarding this here.  Hope
someone can help me get some version installed on this machine.

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Frank

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 08:00:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Frank <frank_s at bellsouth.net>
To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
Subject: 6.X wont boot on Dell XPS 700

I have a new XPS 700 Pentium D 3.6 Dual Core with 2 gigs RAM, 2 250 GB SATA 
drives, and 2 NVIDIA GeForce 7900GS video cards.

So far I have tried:

6.0-RELEASE - will boot to sysinstall but finds no drives.

6.1-RELEASE - hangs after probing md0 and first hard drive.

6.1-STABLE - hangs after probing md0 and first hard drive.

7.0-CURRENT - hangs after probing md0 and both hard drives.

I have unplugged the USB keyboard and mouse and used a PS/2 keyboard. 
Disabling ACPI causes a panic on all versions.

Anyone have a clue what it will take to install on this machine?

--
Frank
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