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Subject: Re: Installation Problem.
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DUKE NUKEM wrote:

>Hi, 
>
>I'm having problems getting FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4 and 6.0 BETA3 installed
>on my box.  I downloaded the i386 images, and whenever I boot to cd
>for the installation, it reboots once 'BTX loader 1.00  BTX version is
>1.01' is printed.  I've checked the md5 checksum and they matched, so
>that's not the problem.  I've also disabled hardware in BIOS, along
>with removing any hardware I wouldn't need from my box, and neither of
>those did the job either.
>  
>
Have you tried enabling PIO transfer mode for the CD-ROM drive? A have a
Compaq Evo that crashes if I boot with a FreeBSD install CD with the
CD-ROM drive set  to use DMA transfers.

Cheers,

Mathijs