booting on laptop freezes

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Marco Tijbout" <marco at tijbout.nl> writes:

> I also have this problem. This time it is on my Hewlett-Packard Netserver
> E60. It was during the boot time of the FreeBSD 5.0 CD-Rom. The problem
> exists with the downloaded ISO and the CD-Rom I have buyed (bought?).
> 
> Similar problem I got with the FreeBSD 4.8 release. During the installation,
> no problem, but after the reboot at the end, it would not proceed at this
> specific point.
> 
> I hope this information is some kind of usefull.

Not particularly.  I've confirmed that it's agp itself that's causing
the problem, and I managed to bootstrap up from an older release
without it.  

I'm having trouble debugging the problem (details at
http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/systuff/laptop-problems.html); if
you could try to debug the agp module startup code, I'd like to
compare notes.

 - Lowell Gilbert

> Marco
> 
> 
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org] Namens Lowell Gilbert
> Verzonden: donderdag 24 april 2003 23:51
> Aan: freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> Onderwerp: Re: booting on laptop freezes
> 
> 
> 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? _______________________________________________
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