From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Sun Mar  4 11:58:20 2007
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93DA116A404
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun,  4 Mar 2007 11:58:20 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com)
Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C90913C4A5
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun,  4 Mar 2007 11:58:19 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from chrcoluk@gmail.com)
Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k27so1695570nfc
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:58:19 -0800 (PST)
DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta;
	h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition;
	b=C+7521g0USWsR/hLL6OjuuYXn62PJnTz+Z4+xwZM6IZ3771izwniLL5ozw7ZCJs3RZYnLMD1JK6NbSD16q+nc91QcWbFQF+3pJbR5Av8OwMZ66ZuVMa5rFAHGePWFh7KtfIk34xOs7nNt3uW51Wb43roRnrH4gm4c0aSx1xNrkw=
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta;
	h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition;
	b=at+IAYLugiSrlW50paRdDIF19692dgccOw+Wxk/SB0OAeWlR81bxS/droNXYpoYJVBAfNYusjGsyhbFgUu5AlNQtTEle3awsXsNqF9C41QhtMUJTzMy5NeH/lr2Dx/fPHRmqCTeOM3O8lEpyY4le5vVfykbLWqJFD5XoBHQdB/I=
Received: by 10.82.187.16 with SMTP id k16mr3337814buf.1173009498856;
	Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:58:18 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.82.134.15 with HTTP; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 03:58:18 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <3aaaa3a0703040358v7002e5c7pbd0c8d5b960e1f5f@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 11:58:18 +0000
From: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com>
To: "FreeBSD Questions" <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
Subject: loader wont boot on cd 6.2 and 5.4
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 11:58:20 -0000

Hi.

An associate of mine is unable to install freebsd, we hitting the old
poor hardware compatiblity problem.

Its not cost effective to use a normal ide cdrom for installations so
a usb cdrom is used and this has no problems with linux and windows.

When trying to install freebsd after the loader pronpt it either gives
a load of random numbers flooding the screen or if we toggle acpi in
the bios it says btx halted.

Googling btx halted indicates dma problems but we have no dma stuff
been its a usb drive.

any ideas other then changing hardware?

The motherboard is Supermicro PDSMi+ with core duo chip
also same problem with Supermicro P8SCi and celeron.

Thanks

Chris