Problem solved, the Promise controller was the reason for
that abnormal rebooting within the BTX loader...
disabling it for installation worked fine
after installation, enabling the Promise Controller again did also work,
FreeBSD is handling the mirrored disks correctly
Cheers... now it's
I've just got a new machine to play with,
for detailed specs of the machine see below...
I've tried to install several releases of FreeBSD,
5.2.1 Release and the 5.3 RC1, but after some lines of boot initialisation,
the machine just reboots without any further notice
Normal Startup and BIOS
