On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:16:42AM -0500, Edwin Brown wrote: > It's a Dell XPS Pro 200n system tag 72V98
I seem to recall recently that I needed to disable ATA DMA from BIOS on a Dell to install 5.3-RELEASE. See if that helps. > CPU: Pentium Pro 200MHz > Chipset: Intel 82440FX > Memory: 128MB ECC SIMM > BIOS: A06 released 01/08/1998 (the last bios for this computer) > IDE: (MSI DVD drive) (bootable secondary channel master) > (Maxtor 40GB hard disk) (bootable primary channel master) > > I've also installed a promise ATA/133 card and tried to boot the > computer with the > CD and hard drive attached to that instead of the system board. > However, that fails as well. > > I've gone ahead an installed from the floppies with the IDE devices > attached to the motherboard. For some reason the floppies boot fine. > > Thanks for the reply, > > Edwin -- Brian Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 55 Crystal Ave. #286 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1725 USA BSD admin/developer at large _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
