Re: Installing FreeBSD 5.1 on i386 (ASUS motherboard).

From: Krishna Ramanathan (kumar_ramanathan_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/28/03

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    Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:56:08 -0800 (PST)
To: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

    Thanks a lot, Harald, it worked !
    I chose option 2 in the BSD install menu, and I'm fine
    now.. tho' I've been too chicken to go thru' the
    partitioning process, without a thorough read, I'll
    get around to doing that today/tomorrow, I'm sure.

    Best regards,
    Kumar

    --- Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> wrote:
    > 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
    > helped. Since this wasn't my machine the issue got
    > forgotten.
    >
    > Best regards,
    >
    > -Harry
    >
    > >
    > > 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
    > >
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