6.1 CD is Hanging on Install

[fbsd]

Trouble shooting 101.

1. If you burned the install cd from the iso file, did you 
first check that what you downloaded is correct by running 
md5 and comparing the hash number against the checksum value?

2. Check the motherboard bio settings. 
	Turn off all power management options.
	If there is an option to select the operation system, 
	select anything other than windows. 
	Check that irq number assignments are set to auto.
	Check that hard drive master/slave is set to auto.

3. If nothing works to fix problem them post your question to 
	the FreeBSD mobile list. The mobile list is just for laptop 
	questions so you should get better help there. 


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Justin
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 1:31 PM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: 6.1 CD is Hanging on Install


Hello,

I'm trying to venture into the world of BSD.  Thus, I have just
recently joined the mailing list and this is my first message.  I have
tried to research my question and found a similar problem, but I was
unable to find any type of solution.

Here's What's Happening:

After I boot my laptop to the installer CD and select what I'd like to
boot (I've tried the default, no acpi, and safe mode with the same
results), the installer seems to lock up the computer after the
following two lines:

  Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1600070929 Hz quality 800
  Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec

 At this point the computer responds to nothing but holding down the
power button, which obviously kills the power.  Just in case it was
trying to work something out (after all, the "thinking" light was on),
I let my laptop sit for almost four hours with still no change.

I have used Debian and Fedora on this computer previously with no
problems (and obviously Windows works also).

Since there are really no other options as far as booting goes, I
really don't know what I've done wrong or what I can do.

Just is case it helps, here is some information about my system:
Compaq Presario M2105US
  AMD Mobile Sempron processor
  1GB RAM
  ATI Express 200M graphics card w/ shared memory

Also, I've tried to use the 2CD set and Boot Only CD for the i386.

Thanks in advance for your help.

~Justin
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