Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 06:26:55 +0100 From: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> To: Krishna Ramanathan <kumar_ramanathan@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 5.1 on i386 (ASUS motherboard). Message-ID: <200310270626.56385@harrymail> In-Reply-To: <20031026094524.50058.qmail@web10805.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031026094524.50058.qmail@web10805.mail.yahoo.com>
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--Boundary-02=_gyKn/j/wAE3LCCl Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 26 October 2003 10:45, Krishna Ramanathan wrote: > Hello, > I have a machine with the following configuration : > > 1. AMD Athlon XP 1.8GHz. > 2. 512 Mb DDR RAM. > 3. Samsung CD/RW Drive > 4. 2 HDDs - IBM(80G) + Samsung(40G). > 5. ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard. > 6. NVidia GEForce MX-440(64Megs dedicated DDR) Display > card. > 7. DLing DFE538-TX 10/100 Mbps, ethernet card on PCI. > > I burned 2 CDs from the ISOs I have downloaded, from > the ftp://ftp.freebsd.org site. > I have downloaded version 5.1 of the FreeBSD release. > > During install, I get the following error : > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0, after which the > system hangs, no Keyboard access, nothing. I have to > do a power down and start up again. All devices are > detected fine, HDDs, CD/RW, Display adapters, KBD, > etc. Try disabling ACPI. I had the same problem some time ago and disabling ACPI= =20 helped. Since this wasn't my machine the issue got forgotten. Best regards, =2DHarry > > Am I doing something wrong ? Or is the 5.1 release > unsupported for my motherboard ? Do I need to(groan) > download another release ? Is 4.9/4.8 a stable release > ? Or is there something else I'm missing out on ? > > Please advise. > thanks in advance, > Kumar > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears > http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --Boundary-02=_gyKn/j/wAE3LCCl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/nKygBylq0S4AzzwRAv1HAJwPG4u4V0M4T6dAC/o5tXwQ+Vjz0gCcC6LB AROBuqu5mgXz2lfcE7lt7Kc= =wFuj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_gyKn/j/wAE3LCCl--
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