5.4 installation trouble

[Ivailo Bonev]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 06:52:55 +0300, James Heck <jpheck at uncc.edu> wrote:

> I have a toshiba satelite a25 laptop running windows xp right now
> pentium 3 with 512mb ram, with 40 gb unpartitioned space (35 or so has
> been reserved for bsd). I made 3 .iso's from nero, taken from the files
> on www.freebsd.org. None of them allow me to actually load into the
> install portion of the process. 1 or 2 seconds after bsd tries to load,
> and a bunch of text shows up, it comes to this: "ata0: channel #0 on
> atapci0." When this comes up, the cd in the drive stops spinning and
> nothing else happens- i am forced to reboot.
>
> I have brief experiences with mandrake 10, but im mostly familiar with
> windows. I cant wait to get into bsd so if you guys have any input on
> this issue, please let me know. and thanks alot!
>
> James


Try to boot up with ACPI disabled and/or DMA off, or booting in Safe mode.

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