From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 23 19:29:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D9F7106564A for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:29:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jack@jarasoft.net) Received: from raats.xs4all.nl (raats.xs4all.nl [82.95.230.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 157698FC1B for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:29:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jack@jarasoft.net) Received: from raats.xs4all.nl (localhost.jarasoft.net [127.0.0.1]) by raats.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6541D22B26; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:29:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from jara3 (unknown [10.10.10.20]) by raats.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 2556E2285E; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:29:32 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <393E3A07623E4BB2847B00C34F500C60@jarasoft.net> From: "Jack Raats" To: "Ben Kaduk" References: <47d0403c0812231045o49cf05fv5999f32d1061a8a9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:29:31 +0100 Organization: JaRaSoft, Steenbergen, Nederland MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Relayed-By: GPGrelay Version 0.959 (Win32) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP on orac.jarasoft.net Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Jack Raats List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:29:33 -0000 From: "Ben Kaduk" > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Jack Raats wrote: >> Hi, >> >> At this moment I have problems installing FreeBSD 6.4 and FreeBSD 7.0. >> After booting from CD the system I get the menu. I have tried all >> possible options. >> The system starts checking all hardware but freezes after finding the >> CD-ROM drives printing the GEOM_LABLE (on FB 7.0, not 6.4) >> (acd0) >> >> The hardware is a Targa Visonary 2700XP, AMD 2700+ CPU, mem 1 GB >> >> Can anyone help me. I never had this problems before on other systems. >> > > > Have you tried booting in verbose mode? > If so, does it give any further output after printing the GEOM_LABEL for > the other drives? Verbose mode does not give much more information. It tells the info of the CD rom drives, after which it stops. Strange thing is that installing ubuntu doesn't give any trouble. Checking the hardware doesn't give any failures. Memory is OK. Thanks for your time Jack