Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 07:35:08 -0400 From: Blake Meike <blakem@world.std.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Install problems, Netfinity 5k w/Adaptec RAID Message-ID: <EE1FA34B-9CF5-11D8-85E2-0030655517D2@world.std.com>
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Hi, I'm hoping this will be easy to solve -- or at least easy to diagnose. I'm new to FreeBSD, so I just don't know where to look yet. I have a Netfinity 5k, .6Gh SMP with an Adaptec RAID. It runs all manner of Linuxes just fine. I'd like to start running BSD instead. Install from CD fails. If I leave APIC on, the boot into the installer gets as far as a message that says: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec Actually, if I wait a very long time, I get one more message: md0: Preloaded image </boot/mfsroot> ... If, on the other hand, I turn off APIC, I get into the installer just fine. When I try to set the media to CD, however, installer tells me that I have no CD drives (despite the fact that is is running from one!) I'd appreciate any suggestions that would help me: 1) identify the hardware that is causing the stall, so I can pull it out 2) explain to the installer where my CD drive is, with APIC off Many thanks, Blake Meike
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