Installing FreeBSD 5.1 on i386 (ASUS motherboard).

[Harald Schmalzbauer]

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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