From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 7 00:14:20 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6438A16A468 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:14:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wsparrish@hotmail.com) Received: from bay0-omc2-s37.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc2-s37.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5310213C45B for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 00:14:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wsparrish@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com ([64.4.61.26]) by bay0-omc2-s37.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2668); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:00:24 -0700 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:00:24 -0700 Message-ID: Received: from 64.4.61.244 by by102fd.bay102.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:00:23 GMT X-Originating-IP: [75.182.124.13] X-Originating-Email: [wsparrish@hotmail.com] X-Sender: wsparrish@hotmail.com From: "S Parrish" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:00:23 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Jun 2007 00:00:24.0048 (UTC) FILETIME=[D8E02F00:01C7A896] Subject: problems installing 6.2 on Dell Dimension 4100 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:14:20 -0000 Hello, I am new to FreeBSD and am trying to install 6.2 on a Dell Dimension 4100. After I get to the "Welcome to FreeBSD!" screen and press enter, I see the following: /boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x43698 data=0x23c0+0x10f0 syms=[0x4+0x7ba0+0x4+0xa828] \ The second line is the position of the "twirling baton" when the system hangs. There is also a white bar after the baton that extends to the right hand side of my display. I am not using any hardware that I would consider to be unusual. 1GHz Pentium III processor 512 MB RAM 2) 80GB Western Digital IDE hard drives 3.5 inch floppy drive Sony IDE DVD-ROM drive (not sure of brand, came with the Dell) IDE CD-RW drive Nvidia Ge-Force III video adapter with 128 MB ram (AGP) D-Link 10/100 Ethernet card (PCI) D-Link WiFi card (PCI) Creative Soundblaster Live sound card (PCI) 3-port Firewire card USB 1.1 built into MB PS/2 keyboard USB mouse I have tried disabling everything possible in the BIOS as well as removing every card, with the exception of the video card. I still get the same results. I've tried every possible combination of primary/slave for both hard drives and CD/DVD drives. Still no luck. I have tried disabling ACPI to no avail. I have also tried FreeBSD 5.5 and PC-BSD 1.3.01 and get the same results....system hangs. Note that I have been able to successfully install a number of Linux distros (including Mandrake, Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu, and Debian) on this box previously with no problems. Note that I *can* get to the "loader prompt" by selecting option 6 in the welcome screen menu. However, every other option in the menu results in a system hang. Has anyone ever run across anything like this? I've been working on this for 3 days and am at wit's end. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks, -W _________________________________________________________________ Don’t miss your chance to WIN $10,000 and other great prizes from Microsoft Office Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/aub0540003042mrt/direct/01/