Freebsd Installation..

[Luke Kearney]

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 08:39:16 +0200
"Lennart Filutowski" <lennart at globalsuccessclub.com> granted us these pearls of wisdom:

> Hi,
>   I am having trouble installing FreeBSD. I first tryed installing
> FreeBSD5.0-RELEASE but the computer freezes each time it is probing for
> devices. I read the trouble shooting in the manual pages and tryed to use
> set hint.acip.0.disabled="1". But then it frooze when loading the kernel.
> Then I tryed to download new floppy images this time for FreeBSD4.8-RELEASE
> and it still freezes when loading kernel. I have searched the net for a
> solution to my problem but have not found any. It freezes right after these
> lines if it helps:
> 
> ad4: 29314MB<IBM-DLTA-307030>[59560/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100
> ad5: 39266MB<1C35L040AVER07-0>[79780/16/63] at ata2-slave UDMA100
> 
> Since I am quite new to BSD I have no idea what might cause this. A
> spontaneous guess would be that my hard drives are causing the fuss. If
> anyone could help me with this I would be very greatful. Thanks.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Lennart Filutowski

Try disabling UDMA on the system bios. That should help a little.

HTH

LukeK