Thanks, Pierre. I was able to continue with the installation after:
1) Setting the SATA Type to Native IDE instead of AHCPI.
2) Using the Alternate CD image instead of the Desktop CD image.
Two "softreset failed" messages (one for each of two SATA drives) now appear at boot, but as far as I can tell no real problems are occurring.
Thanks, Pierre. I was able to continue with the installation after:
1) Setting the SATA Type to Native IDE instead of AHCPI.
2) Using the Alternate CD image instead of the Desktop CD image.
Two "softreset failed" messages (one for each of two SATA drives) now appear at boot, but as far as I can tell no real problems are occurring.