Hang up on boot ..

[Christian Hiris]

On Sunday 02 May 2004 14:10, Florian wrote:
> Hi!
>
> >> I want to install using a CD with the 5.2.1-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso.
> >> It shows the "Welcome to FreeBSD!"-screen wit hthe 7 options and that
> >> ASCII-art demon to the right.
> >> If I chose "1. Boot FreeBSD [default]", it starts to boot but just
> >> freezes
> >> after a few pages of text, the last lines being:
> >> Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1102504582Hz quality 800
> >> Timecounters tick every 10.000msec
> >
> > The next thing to happen after that message is (on my system with IDE)
> > probing for ata disk drives.
> >
> > Can you try it again with just the HD you want to install to connected.
> > (yes without the CD drive if you can make the two install floppies)
> > The Generic kernel may be struggling with a slave without master
> > situation for instance.
> >
> >> I hope anyone can help me with that ..
> >
> > More information about the disk drives and other hardware may help
> > someone help...
>
> Okay, just thought it might be something obvious or some oversight from my
> side ..
> The system I use:
> ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe Rev1.06 (nForce 2 chipset) (XP2500+, 2x 256mb)
> 120gb Seagate HDD on on-board Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller
> Toshiba SD-M1612 (DVD-Rom) on Primary IDE Master
> AOpen CRW 4850 (CD-RW) on Primary IDE Slave
>
> Thanks in advance
>   - Florian
>

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regards
ch

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