If you have nothing of value on the hard drive, I would suggest low-level
formatting the drive, then verify the boot order is CD first.
-Derek
At 04:22 PM 5/26/2006, Jason Curole wrote:
Hello all,
I am a newbie to FreeBSD, though I currently use Mac OS X and am
reasonably comfortable with the unix side. I am trying to install
FreeBSD on a Dell Precision 210 machine (scrounged it up recently and
it has a huge hard drive, otherwise I don't know much about it). I
have tried installation with FreeBSD Release 6.0 and 6.1 (both the
full cd and boot-only cd for 6.0; just the boot-only cd for 6.1).
The machine boots and I get to the screen where I can select my boot
option. I select 5, (boot with detailed messaging) and the machine
goes through some SMAP messages, a couple of Copyrights and a Free- BSD
claimer with an email address. It pauses here for a good
10-15min. Then I get messages regarding preloading of "elf kernel",
"mfs_root" and "elf module", followed by tables 'FACP' and 'APIC',
"MADT: Found table at ...", "APIC: Using the MADT enumerator", then:
MADT: Found CPU APIC ID 0 ACPI ID 1: enabled
MADT: Found CPU APIC ID 1 ACPI ID 2: disabled
It has remained at this point for at least a half-hour (through
lunch, etc.), no lights flashing and does not respond to the enter
key. Is this normal? I should mention that between the attempt at
installing 6.0 (about 4 weeks ago) and 6.1 I had installed OpenBSD
and it appeared to install and work fine, so I think the machine is
okay.
Jason
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