Trouble installing FreeBSD on a Dell Precision 210?

[Derek Ragona]

If you have nothing of value on the hard drive, I would suggest low-level 
formatting the drive, then verify the boot order is CD first.

         -Derek


At 04:22 PM 5/26/2006, Jason Curole wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I am a newbie to FreeBSD, though I currently use Mac OS X and am
>reasonably comfortable with the unix side.  I am trying to install
>FreeBSD on a Dell Precision 210 machine (scrounged it up recently and
>it has a huge hard drive, otherwise I don't know much about it).  I
>have tried installation with FreeBSD Release 6.0 and 6.1 (both the
>full cd and boot-only cd for 6.0; just the boot-only cd for 6.1).
>The machine boots and I get to the screen where I can select my boot
>option.  I select 5, (boot with detailed messaging) and the machine
>goes through some SMAP messages, a couple of Copyrights and a Free- BSD 
>claimer with an email address.  It pauses here for a good
>10-15min.  Then I get messages regarding preloading of "elf kernel",
>"mfs_root" and "elf module", followed by tables 'FACP' and 'APIC',
>"MADT: Found table at ...", "APIC: Using the MADT enumerator", then:
>
>MADT: Found CPU APIC ID 0 ACPI ID 1: enabled
>MADT: Found CPU APIC ID 1 ACPI ID 2: disabled
>
>It has remained at this point for at least a half-hour (through
>lunch, etc.), no lights flashing and does not respond to the enter
>key.  Is this normal?  I should mention that between the attempt at
>installing 6.0 (about 4 weeks ago) and 6.1 I had installed OpenBSD
>and it appeared to install and work fine, so I think the machine is
>okay.
>
>Jason
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