> Finally, the behaviour you're experiencing with your machine (re: the > progress bar stalling 2/3rds of the way through) sounds almost as if the > hard disks aren't spinning up quick enough after a soft reset from > within FreeBSD or Linux 2.4.
The disks should have spun up long before a reset gets issued. > > for some reason i cannot mount any sort of media in freebsd 7 systems. > > the computer handles the booting of the cd's fine but freebsd cannot > > for some reason handle the mounting of disks. It is the firmware (and maybe a bootstrap) that boots a CD. Once control is handed over to the FreeBSD kernel, then the kernel has to be able to talk to the disks. It is the FreeBSD 7 kernel that is having the problem. > > the next step im going > > to take is installing 6.2 and remaking the world but adding device > > aptic to the kernel. > > I think you mean "device apic" to the kernel? No, it is "device aptic". It was in 6 but removed from 7. I had to add aptic to get my nforce4-ultra board to boot 7. Given that 6 runs on Shaun's machine and 7 doesn't, adding aptic is a useful thing to try. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"