Booting FreeBSD 6.0 install CD hangs

[Manfred Lotz]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:23:46 +0200
Manfred Lotz <manfred.lotz at arcor.de> wrote:

> Trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 RC1. When booting the CD it hangs.
> 
> I see the following messages in verbose mode:
> .....
> acd2: Mechanism: ejectable tray, unlocked.
> acd2: Medium: no/blanc disc
> acd2: <NEC DVD RW ND-3540A/1.01>
>       DVDR drive at ata3 as master
> GEOM: new disk ad0
> GEOM: new disk ad1
> 
> After the last acd2 message it take a whil (half a minute or so) till
> teh GEOM messages appear. Then nothing happeened for over 15 minutes
> and I gave up.
> 

In the meantime I was told to try it without ACPI. After specifying
unset acpi_load

on the boot prompt it did boot.


-- 
Manfred