Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 09:25:42 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Steve Bernacki <freebsd@f.copacetic.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE install freezes Message-ID: <AANLkTilY-nFvoWRHRc8ZjvAsutvEpbEseE4Yo37CvuJE@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100512100421.F35154@soma.dmz.copacetic.net> References: <4BDB9128.3060806@f.copacetic.net> <20100512100421.F35154@soma.dmz.copacetic.net>
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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Steve Bernacki <freebsd@f.copacetic.net>wrote: > Following up on my original post, I went back and tried to install > 7.3-RELEASE. The install once again hung right around the time when the > system would normally announce "Timecounters tick every xxx msec". > > Since disabling ACPI and PnP doesn't seem to help, I'm wondering what might > have changed between 6.x and 7.3 as it relates to the kernel bootstrapping > process at this stage? I am actually netbooting this install, so I have the > ability to compile a custom kernel to troubleshoot this further. I'd really > like to install 8.0 on this hardware and get a few more years of life out of > it. > Try updating the BIOS, and tweaking settings there. -- Adam Vande More
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