i386/86880: [hang] 6.0 hangs or reboots whilst 5.4 is stable (ASUS-A7NX motherboard with nforce2 chipset) (regression)

[Joao Barros]

On 2/3/06, Geoffroy Desvernay <dgeo at dgeos.net> wrote:
> I've got the same problem with an A7N8X-X (athlon 2000+) motherboard and
> 6-STABLE (Build Feb, 2 2006).
>
> booting with kernel.debug says nothing, seems to be hardware hang but
> doesn't happend with linux nor OpenBSD. Didn't tried 5.3 yet.
>
> Hang after detection of ATA devices (floppy's light turns on, then hang)
>

Try disabling firewire in the BIOS or connecting a device and see if
you can boot.
I have a similar problem and there's a PR open where you can check
more details: i386/69218


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Joao Barros