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Date:      Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:25:12 +0000
From:      Rui Costa <rui.pfcosta@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   FreeBSD installation freeze! - FreeBSD doesn't like my hardware?
Message-ID:  <c4da55070911170525s65f20c27j96b8fb31c9a9d842@mail.gmail.com>

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When installing freebsd (7.2, 8.0 betas, rc1, rc2, rc3 - AMD64) on a Clevo
M540SR laptop (chipset VIA VN896), after menu option selection, the boot
process freezes at "Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0". On verbose
booting it freezes giving some mode information:

md0: Preloaded image 4194304 bytes at 0xffffffff80c4be40
ATA PseudoRAID loaded
flowtable cleaner started
warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set
accurately
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0

Start_init: trying /sbin/init
Start_init: trying /sbin/oinit
Start_init: trying /sbin/init.bak
Start_init: trying /rescue/init
Start_init: trying /stand/sysinstall

I've tried already several boot hints (any of them with success) such as:

apic.0.disabled = 1
sio.0.disasabled = 1
sio.1.disabled = 1
fdc.disabled = 1
kbdmux.0.disabled = 1

A possible solution I found over the internet would be to disable USB 2.0
support on bios, but bios options are very limited and won't allow me to do
that.

I can install FreeBSD 6.4 without any trouble and later upgrade to 7.0 went
flawlessly, but upgrade to 7.2 brings up the freezes again on boot.



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