5.2.1 Unbootable on my Hardware

[Jason]

Nick Nelson wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I've recently tried to install 5.2.1 on a new system of mine, 
> basically it's an AMD 3000XP, Radeon9800 Pro, Corsair XMS RAM, 
> Lanparty Ultra II 
> (http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_details_r_us.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=1524) 
> with a SerialATA (Marvell 88i8030 chip), I have one SerialATA drive 
> and one IDE drive.
>
> I've tried booting off both the SATA drive and the IDE drive, each 
> time it gets to:
>
> ---
>
> Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
> lo0: bpf attached
>
> ---
>
> and stops..I ran it with logging to get that much information. I've 
> unplugged the SerialATA, which I thought would resolve it, but didn't. 
> Any ideas?
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I have the same problem when acpi is on, I have to boot with option 2.  
I have an nforce2 board from epox.