Re: Installing FreeBSD 5.1 on i386 (ASUS motherboard).
Thanks a lot, Harald, it worked ! I chose option 2 in the BSD install menu, and I'm fine now.. tho' I've been too chicken to go thru' the partitioning process, without a thorough read, I'll get around to doing that today/tomorrow, I'm sure. Best regards, Kumar --- Harald Schmalzbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 26 October 2003 10:45, Krishna Ramanathan wrote: Hello, I have a machine with the following configuration : 1. AMD Athlon XP 1.8GHz. 2. 512 Mb DDR RAM. 3. Samsung CD/RW Drive 4. 2 HDDs - IBM(80G) + Samsung(40G). 5. ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard. 6. NVidia GEForce MX-440(64Megs dedicated DDR) Display card. 7. DLing DFE538-TX 10/100 Mbps, ethernet card on PCI. I burned 2 CDs from the ISOs I have downloaded, from the ftp://ftp.freebsd.org site. I have downloaded version 5.1 of the FreeBSD release. During install, I get the following error : Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0, after which the system hangs, no Keyboard access, nothing. I have to do a power down and start up again. All devices are detected fine, HDDs, CD/RW, Display adapters, KBD, etc. Try disabling ACPI. I had the same problem some time ago and disabling ACPI helped. Since this wasn't my machine the issue got forgotten. Best regards, -Harry Am I doing something wrong ? Or is the 5.1 release unsupported for my motherboard ? Do I need to(groan) download another release ? Is 4.9/4.8 a stable release ? Or is there something else I'm missing out on ? Please advise. thanks in advance, Kumar __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing FreeBSD 5.1 on i386 (ASUS motherboard).
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 06:56, Krishna Ramanathan wrote: Thanks a lot, Harald, it worked ! I chose option 2 in the BSD install menu, and I'm fine now.. tho' I've been too chicken to go thru' the partitioning process, without a thorough read, I'll get around to doing that today/tomorrow, I'm sure. Could you please try booting with disabled parallel port in the BIOS and with ACPI? It seems there is a IRQ-routing problem as someone on the list and I have this problem on VIA C3 boards and with disabled parport ACPI works fine. Best regards, -Harry Best regards, Kumar *SNIP* ? Or is there something else I'm missing out on ? Please advise. thanks in advance, Kumar __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Installing FreeBSD 5.1 on i386 (ASUS motherboard).
Hello, I have a machine with the following configuration : 1. AMD Athlon XP 1.8GHz. 2. 512 Mb DDR RAM. 3. Samsung CD/RW Drive 4. 2 HDDs - IBM(80G) + Samsung(40G). 5. ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard. 6. NVidia GEForce MX-440(64Megs dedicated DDR) Display card. 7. DLing DFE538-TX 10/100 Mbps, ethernet card on PCI. I burned 2 CDs from the ISOs I have downloaded, from the ftp://ftp.freebsd.org site. I have downloaded version 5.1 of the FreeBSD release. During install, I get the following error : Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0, after which the system hangs, no Keyboard access, nothing. I have to do a power down and start up again. All devices are detected fine, HDDs, CD/RW, Display adapters, KBD, etc. Am I doing something wrong ? Or is the 5.1 release unsupported for my motherboard ? Do I need to(groan) download another release ? Is 4.9/4.8 a stable release ? Or is there something else I'm missing out on ? Please advise. thanks in advance, Kumar __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing FreeBSD 5.1 on i386 (ASUS motherboard).
On Sunday 26 October 2003 10:45, Krishna Ramanathan wrote: Hello, I have a machine with the following configuration : 1. AMD Athlon XP 1.8GHz. 2. 512 Mb DDR RAM. 3. Samsung CD/RW Drive 4. 2 HDDs - IBM(80G) + Samsung(40G). 5. ASUS A7N8X-X motherboard. 6. NVidia GEForce MX-440(64Megs dedicated DDR) Display card. 7. DLing DFE538-TX 10/100 Mbps, ethernet card on PCI. I burned 2 CDs from the ISOs I have downloaded, from the ftp://ftp.freebsd.org site. I have downloaded version 5.1 of the FreeBSD release. During install, I get the following error : Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0, after which the system hangs, no Keyboard access, nothing. I have to do a power down and start up again. All devices are detected fine, HDDs, CD/RW, Display adapters, KBD, etc. Try disabling ACPI. I had the same problem some time ago and disabling ACPI helped. Since this wasn't my machine the issue got forgotten. Best regards, -Harry Am I doing something wrong ? Or is the 5.1 release unsupported for my motherboard ? Do I need to(groan) download another release ? Is 4.9/4.8 a stable release ? Or is there something else I'm missing out on ? Please advise. thanks in advance, Kumar __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: signature
