Kernel boot hangs during installation

[Lowell Gilbert]

Paulino Calderon <paulino.calderon at gmail.com> writes:

> Ive got a Toshiba Satellite P10-EE1 with the following specifications:
> -Intel(r) Pentium(r) 4 Processor 3.20 GHz processor with Hyper Threading
> Technology, 533MHz PSB
> L1 Cache 12KB/8KB (instruction/data), L2 Cache 512KB
> -Disk drive 80 gb : TOSHIBA MK9026GAX
> -Video card: ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9700
> -TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R6112
> -Atheros Wireless Network Adapter
> 
> Well first I tried to install freebsd 5.4 without success, i cant get it to
> boot, my installation cd works ( ive tried on different machines ), I get
> the menu with the ASCII daemon and let the countdown time out, but then it
> hangs when it tries to boot the kernel. Ive tried the acpi off and safe mode
> and the same thing happens, so i thought this might be a incompatibility
> problem so i waited and tried the 6.0 RC1 and still no luck, any help or
> orientation you can give me would be really appreciated, thanks.

Try selecting the "safe mode" to boot, and you should at least be able
to get through installation.  Then you'll be able to debug the
specific problems more easily.

Yesterday I bought a new machine that wouldn't boot with the APIC
enabled.  I'll have to figure out how to fix that as soon as possible,
but for now it works fine, just a little slower than it should.