Hello,I suspect your Acer CDRW drive is the problem. Try to disable it's detection from BIOS, FreeBSD will detect it anyway.
First and foremost i'm new to using FreeBSD, so forgive the newbie cry for help. But I do have experience on Linux, so know my way about a *nux environment.
I'm currently trying to install version 5.0-CURRENT, my problem is that when I boot off of the CDROM, it starts loading fine, probes the hardware, then it comes up with the message:
ata0: resetting devices
at which point it hangs. I have disabled the loading of ACPI drivers as explained in the install.txt file, but this alas has not helped.
My hardware is as follows: Asus P4SC-E motherboard Intel CPU Seagate Barracuda HDD and Acer CDRW drive.
Can anyone please provide some insite into my problem and perhaps also additional resource locations.
Many thanks
-James
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I had the same problem with a SONY CDRW, and disabling BIOS detection worked fine with FreeBSD 4.x, but NOT with 5.x . Try that solution with 4.x, and if it works, you know that's the problem. I dont know how to handle it in 5.x unless fixing the kernel.
Alin.
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