FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 hangs on boot, 5.3 works

[Arjan Van Leeuwen]

On 4/21/05, Arjan Van Leeuwen <avleeuwen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 on a Lex Neo system
> (http://www.lex.com.tw, a small form factor PC with a 1GHz VIA C3
> processor).
> 
> The system hangs when booting the kernel, at this point:
> 
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah+RNG+ACE (998.70-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "CentaurHauls"  Id = 0x698  Stepping = 8
>   Features=0x381b93f<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,PAT,MMX,FXSR,S
> SE>
> real memory  = 125763584 (119 MB)
> avail memory = 113414144 (108 MB)
> npx0: [FAST]
> 
(...)
> 
> Booting in safe mode, turning off ACPI in the BIOS of the machine and
> changing 'PNP OS' to yes or no in the BIOS does not help.

I just tried changing hint.npx.0.flags to 0x07 and 0x01, which also
doesn't help.

Arjan