From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 21 10:58:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.130.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF0BB37B43C for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:58:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.10.1/8.9.2) with SMTP id e8LHwSh68296; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:58:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@xena.gsicomp.on.ca) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:58:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Emmerton To: Jamie Grunewald Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Install Hangs while unpacking In-Reply-To: <005f01c023d4$cfb13530$292ee0d1@jamie> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Jamie Grunewald wrote: > Okay here's the situation, > > I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 4.0 on an Packard Bell Intel Pentium > 133. This system is relatively o"old". about 5 years. I've noticed that > when it's probing for hardware during the boot I noticed this line: > > "atapci0: > irq 14 at device 13.0 on pci0" Stop right there. Don't even try to install FreeBSd on a machine with one of these. In fact, don't try and install any OS on one of those. I had one and it hung every OS I installed on it - DOS, Windows 95/98/NT, FreeBSD. You'll be better off finding a new/different system with a better HDD controller, since trying to keep a system running that has one of these controllers will drive you to your grave. -- Matthew Emmerton GSI oOmputer Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message