Cannot start install cd of 6.2-R at all

[Artem Kuchin]

Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Artem Kuchin wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I am having a VERY weird problem.
>> 
>> The pc config is:
>> 
>> 1) Celeron 1+ GHZ
>> 2) Intel PCI ethernet nic
>> 3) Fasttrak TX2000 raid + 2 mirrored disks (seagate 80gb)
>> 4) teac dvd driver
>> 5) 512 MB ram
>> 6) Chaintech montherboard (old one)
>> 
>> also tried on gigabyte motherboard
>> 
>> I insert boot cd and when it starts loading a get a dump
>> of cpu register scrolling crazy on the screen.
>> 
>> If i delete TX2000 the installer loads fine.
>> 
>> Any idea what is happening and how to SOLVE it?
>> 
>> 
> 
> I have seen this with a Tyan PIII board + TX2000. In my case re-trying
> the boot from cd several times would *eventually* get a working
> installer session. (If you search the archives you'll see several
> cases of folks encountering this). Unfortunately I don't know of any
> solution. 
> 
> A (tedious) workaround (in case repeated attempts always fail for
> you), is to install a minimal system off an earlier version of
> FreeBSD and run the installer off the installed system - or just src
> upgrade to the version you want. I found that the 4.x, 5.0, 5.1 and
> 5.2 cd's all worked fine - but 5.3 onwards and 6.x would register
> dump. 


There is a better workaround which i used. A simple start of installer from
4 floppies. Then install the whole system from CD-ROM. It does work but
insolved copying of floppy images onto the disks. 

However is it a very annoying problem which i have been encountering
since 5.0-RELEASE. The bootloader failed when trying to load installed
from CD-ROM on pretty much every PIII and old Celeron pc which i tried.
(it is about 6 machines by now). Very weird and i have no idea to how
help to solve the problem.

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Regards
Artem