FreeBSD-9.1 would not boot on pentium3 laptop

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:38:28 -0500
"Mikhail T." <mi+thun at aldan.algebra.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I have an old Dell Latitude C800 laptop (with Pentium3 CPU in it). 
> FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE was running fine on it, but I decided to update
> the machine to 9.1-STABLE.
> 
> Well, neither my own custom kernel, nor even the official 9.1-RELEASE 
> CD1 would boot... In both cases the boot process runs up to detecting 
> uhub0, then either hangs forever or shuts off after a short while.
> 
USB?

I have had a Fujitsu LifeBook which I only could use with 7.x out for
the same reason.

Erich