booting on laptop freezes

[Lowell Gilbert]

Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-current-local at be-well.no-ip.com> writes:

> I was planning on playing with 5.0, but I can't get it to boot.  
> 
> I'm booting the mini-install CD (both -CURRENT as of a few days ago
> and 5.0-RELEASE), and it gets as far as 
>  pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
>  pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
>  agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440BX) host to PCI bridge> mem 0-0x3ffffff at device 0.0 on pci
> and it locks up there for good.
> 
> It *did* boot OK when I boot the floppies and tried an FTP install,
> but I ran into a different problem (not managing to initialize the
> network card), but I broke my network card and am trying to work from
> the CD for the time being.
> 
> The hardware is an HP Omnibook XE2, which is running FreeBSD-STABLE
> just fine.
> 
> Any hints on what I ought to be looking at, and what documentation
> I may have missed?

I *can* get further by booting floppies and then installing from CD,
but I'm trying to figure out why I can't get the CD to boot the thing
when CDBOOT is clearly working fine...