Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:37:14 -0700 From: Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> To: "S Parrish" <wsparrish@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems installing 6.2 on Dell Dimension 4100 Message-ID: <64c038660706061737n387a145du1705dc29ae8714b5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY102-F163E0A77EBEA3F482AD16EA8260@phx.gbl> References: <BAY102-F163E0A77EBEA3F482AD16EA8260@phx.gbl>
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On 6/6/07, S Parrish <wsparrish@hotmail.com> wrote: > I am new to FreeBSD and am trying to install 6.2 on a Dell Dimension 4100. > > After I get to the "Welcome to FreeBSD!" screen and press enter, I see the > following: > > /boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x43698 data=0x23c0+0x10f0 > syms=[0x4+0x7ba0+0x4+0xa828] > \ > > The second line is the position of the "twirling baton" when the system > hangs.... > > 1GHz Pentium III processor > 512 MB RAM > 2) 80GB Western Digital IDE hard drives > 3.5 inch floppy drive > Sony IDE DVD-ROM drive > (not sure of brand, came with the Dell) IDE CD-RW drive > Nvidia Ge-Force III video adapter with 128 MB ram (AGP) > D-Link 10/100 Ethernet card (PCI) > D-Link WiFi card (PCI) > Creative Soundblaster Live sound card (PCI) > 3-port Firewire card > USB 1.1 built into MB > PS/2 keyboard > USB mouse > > I have tried disabling everything possible in the BIOS as well as removing > every card, with the exception of the video card. I still get the same > results. I've tried every possible combination of primary/slave for both > hard drives and CD/DVD drives. Still no luck. > > I have tried disabling ACPI to no avail. > > I have also tried FreeBSD 5.5 and PC-BSD 1.3.01 and get the same > results....system hangs. Note that I have been able to successfully install > a number of Linux distros (including Mandrake, Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu, and > Debian) on this box previously with no problems. > Note that I *can* get to the "loader prompt" by selecting option 6 in the > welcome screen menu. However, every other option in the menu results in a > system hang. > > Has anyone ever run across anything like this? I've been working on this > for 3 days and am at wit's end. Any help is greatly appreciated! > > Thanks, > On the up side, yes. I have a toshiba laptop (I forget the model number, and it's not with me at the moment) and it does the same thing. The only thing I didn't try, is to attempt an install with a stripped custom kernel. On the down side, I haven't gotten back to that project (among others), so I have yet to get it to work. In the mean time I installed Debian Sarge (though I still use FreeBSD on my main workstation). So, umm....you're not alone...if that helps? Sorry. Maybe someone else has some sage-like advice? -Modulok-
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