I'm seeing this too. Try booting without the floppy installed, then when
it bitches, insert said floppy and hit enter.
Actually, I'm having all manner of insane problems with this board, and
I'm about to throw it out and go back to a FIC SD-11.
> Got a new ASUS K7V with AMD K7 700Mhz processor trying to install
> FreeBSD-4.0 from the kern.flp on ftp.freebsd.org. It dumps the
> registers immediately after saying
>
> /boot.config: -P
> Keyboard: yes
> / [spin icon just twitches once or somethign]
>
> Here's what the 4.0-RELEASE kern.flp dumps before halting; I'm
> supressing the leading zeros so I can typie this:
>
> int=d err=0 efl=30002 eip=56af
> eax=208 ebx=0 ecx=c0010010 edx=100
> esi=b edi=5 ebp=3f4 esp=3c4
> cs=f000 ds=ec00 es=1000 fs=0 gs=0 ss=9e75
> cs: eip=0f 32 66 0d 00 00 08 00-0f 30 c3 66 b9 10 00 01
> ss: esp=12 57 03 01 00 00 00 01-00 00 8d 1d 00 ec ba 1d
> System Halted
>
>
> I've also tried this with the 3.4-RELEASE floppy and it fails
> similarly, tho dumps the registers twice for some reason.
>
> BTW: Solaris-x86-beta does boot from floppy.
>
> Any hints? I'd really prefer not to go to (ehem) another operating system.
>
> Thanks.
>
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