From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 7 22:59:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from foobie.net (adsl-216-103-105-178.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.103.105.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF6E37B9EB for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:59:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sbeitzel@foobie.net) Received: (from sbeitzel@localhost) by foobie.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA12876 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:59:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sbeitzel) From: Stephen Beitzel Message-Id: <200006080559.WAA12876@foobie.net> Subject: Difficulty installing FreeBSD 4.0 on K7 system To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:59:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm trying to build a couple of machines, one to be a gateway and one to be a webserver. I'd really like to be using FreeBSD on them, since I'm more comfortable with it than I am with Linux. However, I'm having trouble with the installation. When I try to boot from either the installation CD or from an installation boot floppy, the computer just hangs after displaying the message that the BTX Boot Loader is starting up. I was able to install RedHat 6.2 just fine on these guys, so I figure I've put the pieces together alright. Is there some kind of problem with the motherboard, maybe, or does FreeBSD not recognize UDMA hard drives? Here are the hardware specifications: Microstar K7 Pro (MS-6195) motherboard Athlon K7 Diamond Speedstar A200 AGP video card (8MB) WD Caviar 10 GB UDMA hard drive 256 MB RAM Netgear PCI NIC (FA310TX) Mitsumi 1.44 FDD Panasonic 40x IDE CD-ROM Thanks for any help you can offer. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message