Hello- I have a 1.2GHz Athlon Thunderbird processor on a Shuttle AK12a motherboard.
I recently installed a Hitachi 180GB HDD as my primary hard drive. No other hard drives are currently installed in the system. When trying to boot a FreeBSD floppy (with kern.flp) or a CD-RW with the installation iso, it freezes on the cursor that alternates from |,/,-\,|, etc. No error messages, just stops on one of the alternating characters while trying to load/boot the kernel. I currently have a 10Gig primary partition in which WinXP Home edition resides. I left the rest of the hard drive unallocated for the FreeBSD install. I know my problem is not installation media, I'm suspecting it's the large hard drive and it's incompatibility with FreeBSD. I have tried FreeBSD 5.2 and 4.9 with the exact same results. I also know the drive itself is in fine working order, WinXP Home installed fine and is working fine. I would really appreciate any suggestions, after installing FreeBSD 5.2 on another AMD K6 machine, I am impressed thus far. Also, my question is not how to boot FreeBSD from any specific partition, I am getting stopped just trying to start the installation process. Thanks very much, Kevin _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
