I asked this question last week. I got a very prompt and somewhat useful answer: this is a known bug in 5.2.1: use 4.9.
Thanks very much. Would anyone be willing to tell me which known bug this is, so that I can track its progress, and thus know when it is safe for me to move to 5.x? I'm also more than a little interested in knowing what's going wrong...
Many thanks, Blake Meike
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From: Blake Meike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 3, 2004 7:35:08 AM EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Install problems, Netfinity 5k w/Adaptec RAID
Hi,
I'm hoping this will be easy to solve -- or at least easy to diagnose. I'm new to FreeBSD, so I just don't know where to look yet.
I have a Netfinity 5k, .6Gh SMP with an Adaptec RAID. It runs all manner of Linuxes just fine. I'd like to start running BSD instead.
Install from CD fails. If I leave APIC on, the boot into the installer gets as far as a message that says:
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
Actually, if I wait a very long time, I get one more message:
md0: Preloaded image </boot/mfsroot> ...
If, on the other hand, I turn off APIC, I get into the installer just fine. When I try to set the media to CD, however, installer tells me that I have no CD drives (despite the fact that is is running from one!)
I'd appreciate any suggestions that would help me:
1) identify the hardware that is causing the stall, so I can pull it out
2) explain to the installer where my CD drive is, with APIC off
Many thanks, Blake Meike
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