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]"
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