Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:23:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Neil Hoggarth <neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk> To: Ilja Alaoja <ilja.alaoja@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE on HighPoint RocketRAID 1520 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.63.0511251314130.553@saros.physiol.ox.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <b9782c550511231354m373454cdy5d151c52050ba989@mail.gmail.com> References: <b9782c550511231354m373454cdy5d151c52050ba989@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Ilja Alaoja wrote: > I've aquired a HighPoint RocketRAID 1520 SATA controller card, since it's > supposed to be very well supported under FreeBSD. > Unfortunately i can't seem to install FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE. As a matter of > fact, the installation CD fails to boot. > My two disks are Seagate Barracuda 120 GB, and my motherboard is an Asus > A7N8X Deluxe (nForce2). That sounds like PR 87568 - have you tried disabling ACPI? I have a similar problem with a different nForce2 based motherboard (Abit NF-7S v2) and HighPoint card (RocketRAID 1640), which I logged in PR 89409. Disabling ACPI is a work-around that has been very effective in my case. Regards, -- Neil Hoggarth Departmental Computing Manager <neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk> Laboratory of Physiology http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~njh/ University of Oxford, UK
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