Bug followup?

[Bill Schmitt (SW)]

A week ago, on 10/1/05, I submitted a bug report (i386/86820) via the 
online system. I submitted it after posting to the questions at freebsd.org 
list and, after a little head scratching, the only suggestions that came 
back were to submit it as a bug. As of now, I've been forced to install 
release 4.9 from an old disk that I fortunately had, because I cannot 
boot successfully after an install of 4.10 or 4.11, and the installation 
disk itself (from a downloaded ISO image) hangs on releases 5.4 and 6 
beta 4. I know there's a lot of work going on getting 6 out the door, 
but so far this seems to be embedded there, too, and in all the versions 
I've tried (4.9 installs and boots without issue). I'd like to get away 
from an unsupported version of FreeBSD. Is there any way I can get a 
hint on how to proceed? From what I can see on the Problem Report screen 
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=86820), I'm the only one 
who's looked at it.

Bill Schmitt