From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 6 7:49:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5164437B401 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 07:49:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 929E543EB2 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 07:49:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id AD6E24FC8A; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:31:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A83A14A0E; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:31:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:31:42 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: root Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: with respect to the installing FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3E199FB8.206DABD9@tesco.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, root wrote: > Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 15:24:40 +0000 > From: root > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: with respect to the installing FreeBSD > > This is a request for help made after extensive efforts to install > freebsd on > my computer, and only after having tried almost everything, i was > wondering > if you have any suggestions. > Firstly, may I say what my system is., below: > > maxtor 6Y120LO hardrive > sis 5513 chipset > sis 5513 ide controller > hda maxtor 6y120l0 ata disk drive > bus pci > sis648 ATA 133 controller > I also get the message in the boot messages, (not 100% native, will > probe > later) if this is of any moment That message is nothing to worry about. Could you please provide some details on exactly *how* the installation is failing? JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message