From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 9 16:36:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D57B716A4E5 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 16:36:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 1x1othedarknesso1x1@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com (wx-out-0102.google.com [66.249.82.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC7743D55 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 16:36:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from 1x1othedarknesso1x1@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id h30so1296898wxd for ; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 09:36:41 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=nvMD4eLp6urt0N4lW5Ou8mIp56ly8QIjlZGGbZ0QAnr4HoJehpniNsnsQcvtovWhRgztSwneAESnePtOrypfI0hdSuXc8rUBbIj2exagtJQO0lNGis//IjD/qVl8NRIH5AZXfVTGLu776RLQ3kTvejm6NHLjEVgu3T1Z1eTSOtQ= Received: by 10.70.132.16 with SMTP id f16mr4245864wxd; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 09:36:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.59.3 with HTTP; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 09:36:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 11:36:41 -0500 From: "Some Guy" <1x1othedarknesso1x1@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: 6.1 Install Halt Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 16:36:43 -0000 Hello, I'm experiencing some strange problems while installing FreeBSD via CD-ROM, and hoping someone might have an idea as to what's causing this. FreeBSD will load fine, and I am able to get to the sysinstall menu, when a few minutes pass, and the computer halts. The amount of time it takes to halt is inconsistent, however its usually within the first 9 minutes of being in the sysinstall menu. Needless to say, I can't quite finish an install when this is happening. Interestingly, I popped in an older FreeBSD 5.3 install CD, and it seems to be fine, I can finish an install, and I also just let it sit inside the sysinstall menu for several hours with no problems or halts. I'm wondering if this is related to some kind of hardware incompaitbility issue, as I have ran hardware diagnostics and successfully installed FreeBSD 5.3, Linux, and Windows on this same box with no problems. I've read through the hardware requirements for 6.1, and nothing seems to be out of order (unless I'm missing something obvious), any ideas? Hardware: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 333FSB Barton Core CPU Biostar M7NCD Motherboard 512 MB Corsair (2 x 256) 3200LLPT (Part# TWINX512-3200LLPT) Thank you.