From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 13 10:58:31 2005 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 E28B216A4CE; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:58:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.terralink.de (mail.tlink.de [217.9.16.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19AC043D1F; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:58:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from me@daniel.stefan.haischt.name) Received: from smtp.abyssworld.de (daniel-s-haischt.biz [84.252.66.2]) by mail.terralink.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20AD8BD74B; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:58:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (smtp.abyssworld.de [192.168.1.6]) by smtp.abyssworld.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDFDB18F8B; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:58:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.abyssworld.de ([127.0.0.1])port 10024) with ESMTP id 15579-03; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:58:21 +0100 (CET) Received-SPF: none (smtp.abyssworld.de: 192.168.1.6 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of daniel.stefan.haischt.name) client-ip=192.168.1.6; envelope-from=me@daniel.stefan.haischt.name; helo=[192.168.120.239]; Received: from [192.168.120.239] (smtp.abyssworld.de [192.168.1.6]) by smtp.abyssworld.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A822318E92; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:58:16 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41E65444.8090009@daniel.stefan.haischt.name> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:58:12 +0100 From: "Daniel S. Haischt" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: babaloo munchies References: <20050113100607.27016.qmail@web50206.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050113100607.27016.qmail@web50206.mail.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Processed-By: GNU Anubis v4.0 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at abyssworld.de cc: questions@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Fabian Keil Subject: Re: Production Release 5.3 Installation Won't Boot 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: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:58:32 -0000 I had the same problem (continous boot cycle if booting from the CDROM media). In my case FreeBSD 5.3 did not like my Promise IDE controller ... babaloo munchies schrieb: > > One difference between 4.8 & 5.3 is that the 5.3 loads > ACPI , but is the ACPI module loaded in the > installation kernel? Is it an interrupt problem? I > don't know. But I do have 5.3 running happily on it > now thanks to teh floppies. AFAIK - FreeBSD, per defualt, does not boot with ACPI enabled. -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Daniel S. Haischt Wan't a complete signature??? Type at a shell prompt: $ > finger -l haischt@daniel.stefan.haischt.name