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From: Neil Hoggarth <neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE on HighPoint RocketRAID
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On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Ilja Alaoja wrote:

> I've aquired a HighPoint RocketRAID 1520 SATA controller card, since it's
> supposed to be very well supported under FreeBSD.
> Unfortunately i can't seem to install FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. As a matter of
> fact, the installation CD fails to boot.
> My two disks are Seagate Barracuda 120 GB, and my motherboard is an Asus
> A7N8X Deluxe (nForce2).

That sounds like PR 87568 - have you tried disabling ACPI?

I have a similar problem with a different nForce2 based motherboard 
(Abit NF-7S v2) and HighPoint card (RocketRAID 1640), which I logged in 
PR 89409. Disabling ACPI is a work-around that has been very effective 
in my case.

Regards,
-- 
Neil Hoggarth                                Departmental Computing Manager
<neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk>                   Laboratory of Physiology
http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~njh/                  University of Oxford, UK