From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 22 08:17:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7618516A4CE for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:17:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chello084114137224.1.15.vie.surfer.at (chello084114137224.1.15.vie.surfer.at [84.114.137.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1F3643D31 for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:17:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from 4711@chello.at) Received: (qmail 41559 invoked from network); 22 Dec 2004 08:17:03 -0000 Received: from matrix010.matrix.net (192.168.123.10) by ns.matrix.net with SMTP; 22 Dec 2004 08:17:03 -0000 From: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, scott@sremick.net Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:16:46 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20041222051348.71854.qmail@web53601.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041222051348.71854.qmail@web53601.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412220917.02579.4711@chello.at> Subject: Re: Hang on install of 5.3 on old Presario X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:17:06 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 December 2004 06:13, Scott I. Remick wrote: > I'm trying to breathe some life into some old hardware by giving it a task > of a server. I've burnt the full 5.3 ISO to CD. I can get it to read the CD > fine and start to boot. I get as far as the "Welcome to FreeBSD" menu (with > the ASCII daemon). No matter what option I choose, the bar then spins for a > moment and then the computer hangs. > > I've tried upgrading the BIOS to the latest offered from Compaq's website > (although it's dated 1998). I've turned off PnP, and all unneeded ports > (including serial, parallel, USB). I've tried both the "DOS" and "Other" > setting for the HDD geometry. I've turned off all power-saving. Nothing > seems to work. I've also tried using the 3 floppies... same problem. Try to disable acpi at the loader(8) prompt: set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 Cheers, ch - -- Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFByS1+09WjGjvKU74RAo77AJ9SPdN8YWFzp0Y6vUfJyu/J/KadtACfYWfi +lZhwsAV4tpv1rtDkdyTcC0= =bQsj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----