On 6/27/05, Scott Neville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there
> I have been trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 on a compaq proliant server model 
> 1850R, The server is correctly configured and will run all the operating 
> systems I have tried with the exception of FreeBSD.  I have used the floppies 
> to install the system in the hope of using FTP.  The installer asks for all 
> the disks as usual and gets to load the kernal but gets to the "waiting 15 
> for SCSI devices to settle" and stays there forever.  I have tried launching 
> the installer with option 6 and used set vm.old_contigmalloc=1 but this did 
> nothing.  I tried the installation with FreeBSD 5.3 and the same thing 
> happened.  Hope you can help me sort this out as I have a simmilar compaq 
> server which has it installed and works fine.  Many thanks for your time.

Try to load the installer with ACPI disabled.

-- 
Dmitry

"We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"
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