I cannot get FreeBSD 7.X to load on an HP z400. I have tried 7.1 i386 release, 7.1 amd64 release, 7.2 amd64 RC2, 8.0 amd64 current.

In all versions the loader stops just after the message:
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0

I have tried to simplify the setup of this unit to a single SATA drive, and a single SATA CD/DVD drive.

I have tried various BIOS settings, turning on and off cores in the CPU, changing other IO setting, but still the install hangs.

The z400 has the IntelĀ® X58 Express chipset and a 4 core W3520 Xeon CPU. This particular unit has 4GB RAM. If I can get the amd64 version to load on it, I'd like to run it with more RAM. But obviously the first hurdle is getting the OS to boot to sysinstall.

Any help would be appreciated.



        -Derek
        derek at computinginnovations.com


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