10.1 hangs during boot on Intel DP35DP board

[Eduardo Morras]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:42:24 -0800
"Christopher R. Bowman" <crb at chrisbowman.com> wrote:

> I have a pretty stock Intel DP35DP board with and E8400 Core2Duo and
> the latest BIOS off the Intel website.  This board runs 7.1 and 8.4
> fine.  However neither 9.1 nor 10.1 will boot the AMD64 memstick
> kernel beyond the “Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec“ section of
> probing.  It wedges hard after that line and you have to pus the
> reset button.  I’ve tried turning off ACPI in the boot loader.  That
> does not work.  I’ve tried turning on and off most of the options in
> the BIOS that seem like they might impact things and none of those
> have worked.  Does anyone have any suggestions?  Is anyone running
> this board under 9.x or 10.x?  I can make this system available to
> anyone in the bay area if you’re looking for a project.  Any help you
> can offer will be greatly appreciated.  If I’ve sent this to the
> wrong list, please let me know privately. Thank you Christopher

What's the output of 

#sysctl kern.timecounter

In particular, the 

kern.timecounter.choice

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> Christopher R. Bowman

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Eduardo Morras <emorrasg at yahoo.es>