booting on laptop freezes

[Lowell Gilbert]

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

>                   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.

I have a recent snapshot installed on there, and this now happens when
I boot the hard drive.  

I was doing this to help work out the install on 5.x for newbies, and
get set for doing tech support on it, but I can't even get it running
myself.  

Can anybody give me a hint?