From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 18:51:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26AB416A4CE for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:51:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns.mscweb.com (DSL3-46-Admiral.dwave.net [206.176.209.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD82543D1D for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:51:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikes@mscweb.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [192.168.1.45]) by ns.mscweb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A1AF8A; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:08:30 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <416D7843.90307@mscweb.com> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:47:31 -0500 From: Mike Schuette User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?Big5?B?qVCsZql2?= References: <000801c4b0d9$4385f1e0$8f58a8c0@1> In-Reply-To: <000801c4b0d9$4385f1e0$8f58a8c0@1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't Install FreeBSD 5.x into IBM Machine with 2 XEON CPUs and IBM ServerRAID BIOS 5.11... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:51:09 -0000 (My first post to this list, so no whining if I top/bottom/whatever-posted incorrectly.) I know that at least with floppy disks such as memtest, if the boot sector is corrupt, you will get lots of hex codes spat onto your screen, as this is the BIOS's only method of reporting errors. Perhaps try a different CD, or making boot floppies & installing over the network. Mike Schuette Micro Systems Consulting Minocqua, WI 54548