Installation Hang
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You dont need to disable it in the bios. The page that hoba pointed out has instructions on how to do so.
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You dont need to disable it in the bios. The page that hoba pointed out has instructions on how to do so.
Yes, but it is disabled - it says PIO4 for both the harddrive and cd-rom.
I also have tested with an very old cd-rom which doesn't even support dma.
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You are still missing the point. You need to tell FreeBSD to disable it.
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You are still missing the point. You need to tell FreeBSD to disable it.
I know, i select "Escape to loader prompt" and at the loader prompt i enter: "set hw.ata.ata_dma=0" and "set hw.ata.atapi_dma=0" before i enter "boot".
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I guess Freebsd 6 simply doesn't support my motherboard (it's an old Compaq P3 500mhz pc).
This problem is obviously not related to the devices themselves - since it even occurs with neither of them connected. Just tried to install pfsense to a harddrive using vmware, and then plug in the harddrive in the "problem-computer", and it froze at the same place, just this it was after detecting the hd (since cd-rom was not connected). Same problem when booting from cd without hdd also.
My guess is that it's not related to detection of these devices at all - but it freezes when starting the next step of the bootup. Maybe someone with a working system could check what happens just after the devices have been detected?
Too bad i have to continue use m0n0wall, cause theres some features in pfsense i really want :(
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Did you try a biosupdate?