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Date:      Tue, 4 Aug 2009 23:37:36 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        David Peall <david@esn.org.za>
Subject:   Re: Can't install FreeBSD amd64 (intel DP45GS)
Message-ID:  <200908042337.46134.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <0807767D2D53E649827BC55A3A53B067015C3ACD4F0D@exchange.ct.esn.org.za>
References:  <0807767D2D53E649827BC55A3A53B067015C3ACD4F0D@exchange.ct.esn.org.za>

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On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, David Peall wrote:
> I found the following:
> http://blog.elitecoderz.net/freebsd-freezes-on-trying-to-mount-root-f
>rom-ufsdevmd0-and-is-stucked/2009/01/
>
> Which suggests disabling USB2 I don't seem to have that bios option
> and tried disabling USB completely, but still no joy. (also leaves me
> without a keyboard ;-)
>
> There are no PATA ports for me to mount an older cdrom and there are
> only USB ports on the motherboard.  I'm a bit stuck as to how I
> should proceed, any ideas welcome.

I did not have any trouble installing on an Intel DQ45CB, however I did=20
have a few video driver issues until I upgraded the BIOS.

Do you have the latest BIOS installed?

When you say it's stuck does pressing scrolllock and paging back work?

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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