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Cc: Josh Stephenson <jstep@unm.edu>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD SATA
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On Wednesday 06 December 2006 00:06, Josh Stephenson wrote:
> I'm having trouble installing FreeBSD on the following system:
> Intel Desktop Board DG965SS motherboard
> Intel Core Duo 2.8GHz
> 1GB Memory
> 1 SATA hard-drive
> 1 dvd/cd-burner sony dru-120c
> 
> Here's the problem:
> 
> When I boot the install, I get:
> Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up
> Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up
> Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up
> .....

You can probably ignore those.

> and then the system hangs at either this line:
> Interrupt storm detected on "irq17:"; throttling interrupt source
> 
> or sometimes, I actually get into the install screen, but the response 
> is ridiculously slow.  ie- I press the down arrow, and 30 seconds later, 
> it respons, but eventually it just hangs completely.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.

Try disabling ACPI and/or APIC as a test.

-- 
John Baldwin