Install

[Wood, Russell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ramesh Subrahmaniam
> Sent: Monday, 20 November 2006 1:33 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Install
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> Where should I  be  asking questions regarding install ?  If this is
the
> correct forum I have a Sis648-FX motherboard.
> I have two hard drives; one Hitachi and one Western Digital. I also
have a
> BTC DVD-ROM.
> 
> In addtition to this I have two Sil 3112 SATA Controllers on which I
have
> four disks. Overall I have 6 disks. I would like to run Free BSD on it
> make it a NAS box.
> 
> The 6.1 Production release bootonly.iso and the 6.2 RC1 bootonly.iso
have
> problems getting to install. When I try to install I cannot stop the
> screen from scrolling very very fast. It just seems like some
unhandled
> interrupt in a continuous loop. This happens as soon as I see the Boot
> from CD image. I cannot see anything meaningful.
> 
> Other than removing the Silicon image controllers what should I do.
> Appreciate any ideas.
> 
> Thanks
> Ramesh

I would recommend disabling as much as possible in the BIOS just so you
can get the installation done. Then one by one re-enabling everything to
look for the issue.

Regards,
Russell Wood


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