Sorry for confusion on where it dies...It gets thru all the hardware probing...Appearing to find all hardware in the machine...Except that drivers arent attached to MB internal video ( which is supposed to be disabled ), SMBus and Onboard Multimedia-sound.
It enters the sysinstall program, where it tells me that it is probing for hardware, which may take a while....I have waited for up to an hour, and lost patience. I do not know how to capture the boot up messages...They scroll off the screen faster than I can write them down...dmesg would do it on a running system, but since it is hung, Im stuck. ( The emergency, holographic shell hasnt started yet ). I suppose I could try booting with another PC as a serial console, and capturing the bootup messages on that machine. Per the comments below, I have now tried it with UDMA disabled on the HD and the CD drives, and also tried various, lower IDE data transfer modes (speeds). I should have added that this MB has the Intel 845G chipset and I have added the GF 4200 Video board, which disables the internal video Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doron Shmaryahu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Dave Bloodgood'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 12:35 PM Subject: RE: Sysinstall hangs during probing.... Hi, You have not mentioned where it dies but looking at your hardware spec it may possibly be a udma setting !! Kind Regards Doron Shmaryahus -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Bloodgood Sent: 16 June 2003 02:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sysinstall hangs during probing.... Ive tried 4.7, 4.8, 5.0 and 5.1R ( and maybe more earlier )...System is ABIT BG-7 MB, 512M RAM, P4 CPU 2.26 GHz, onboard realtec lan, onboard sound, 6 USB, no firewire internal graphics is disabled, 2 serial, 1 parallel port MSI GF4 4200 video, 64 MB RAM PCI hardware modem NO ISA slots ( and no ISA boards ! ) During boot-up, no driver is attached to internal vga, SMBus or Multimedia - these are all recognized, and it says no driver is attached. I have a USB keyboard and have tried setting hint.atkbd.0.disabled="1" and have gone thru the other hints, disabling all hardware that isnt in machine ( and isnt already disabled ). Am able to run redhat linux, at least to the point of partitioning it, and have installed NETBSD (1.6.1) with success.... Have been "loyal" to freebsd for quite a while, am frustrated by inability to install on this machine HELP ! Dave _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
