Installation problems

[Scott Kupferschmidt]

Hello,

The problem is your motherboard has a junk ide controller that FreeBSD
does not support DMA on properly.  If you disable DMA in the BIOS, FreeBSD
will boot and install properly.

Sincerely,

Scott Kupferschmidt
ISPrime, Inc.
866.502.4678 ext. 3
AIM: Scott ISPrime - ICQ: 174337249

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Paul Brownsea wrote:

> I thought I'd give FreeBSD a go after enjoying using Linux, so I downloaded 
> and burnt the FreeBSD 4.9 ISO images and I can't seem to install. I get 
> past the bit with configuring the kernel but get stuck just afterwards, the 
> last two messages are as follows:
> 
> ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> ata0: resetting devices .. 
> 
> And then it just hangs.
> 
> -- 
> "Plaese porrf raed."
> 		-- Prof. Michael O'Longhlin, S.U.N.Y. Purchase
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