Asus A7N8X: Boot failure under Beta 4 and 5

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

On Tue, 21.09.2004 at 01:44:35 +0100, Joao Barros wrote:
> Trying to install FreeBSD on the last Winblows machine at home was a no go. 
> The kernel "pauses" at boot. I thought it stopped completely but after
> pressing the power button I realized there was still something alive:
> 
> acpi: suspend request ignored (not ready yet)

I saw this one yesterday. Try booting without ACPI or with verbose boot.
Another thing would be to boot without any CDROM drive attached. But I
guess this is not a feasible solution (except you have some SCSI gear
lying around or a USB drive the BIOS can boot from...)


Ulrich Spoerlein
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