Brand new hardware - install fails

chavez243ca

chavez243ca

Exact same error with both a 7.2 Bootonly CD and an 8.0 Bootonly CD (both i386).

Code: 
Attempting Boot From CD-ROM
CD Loader 1.2

Building the boot loader arguments
Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
Relocating the loader and the BTX
Starting the BTX loader

BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02

...and that is where it halts, no error, it just sits there and does nothing. This is with a brand new, HP DC5850, AMD Athlon X2.
 
MD5 (8.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso) = aede8888c250b648bf799d508bc9bf9d

Code: 
[Path] / filename                              MD5 sum
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[c:\Documents and Settings\rickc\Desktop\]
8.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso             100% aede8888c250b648bf799d508bc9bf9d


no problem there.
 
scratched surface of the cd/dvd?

or maybe read errors from the unit...try booting another os...anything you have already on a cd/dvd...
 
Hmm, seams something similar to my problem, when I just pursued my server (however problem was limited to 64bit arch)

IN bios setting there were various options for raid (even if you didn't configure raid itself), I found out, that thre were some combinations in bios settings (related to Hard disks) that prevented FreeBSD cd to boot).

Now I have 2 profiles in bios, one if I need to boot from CD, other if I want to boot from HDD.
Note, that problem was only when I wanted to boot from CD, This didn't apply to booting from HDD.
 
@Dutch Daemon - same issue with 8.0 Live CD.

@Killasmurf86 - yeah, I have been playing with various HD / SATA setting to see if that is somehow related. Will likely keep tinkering with the BIOS as that is where my suspicious lie as well.
 
there is also a BIOS setting for HPET which is defaulted to enabled - wonder if FreeBSD has issues with that timer.
 
Usually not, I think.

Code: 
acpi_hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff on acpi0
 
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