i386/103063: Can not install on Dell XPS 700

[Frank Seltzer]

>Number:         103063
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Can not install on Dell XPS 700
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Sep 09 12:20:23 GMT 2006
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>Originator:     Frank Seltzer
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>Description:
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, removed 1 gig of memory and removed the secondary hard drive and DVD. Nothing makes a difference.  Disabling ACPI causes a panic on all versions.

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