Dell E521 won't boot FreeBSD

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 18:25, Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Your suggestion to try the 'Safe Mode' was very good indeed, as it
> allowed to pass the disk mounting stage.  I found a more long-term
> solution by setting hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in /boot/loader.conf.
> 
> But this is not sufficient to make FreeBSD boot, I also have to:
> 
> * disable the front USB panel, and one of the two rear USB panels
>   in the BIOS otherwise the keyboard and mouse do not work
> 
> * unplug the mouse during the boot, otherwise keyboard and mouse
>   do not work.  I plug it in again once entering user-land

Weird, I've no idea what would cause that, though it might be a problem in the 
USB drivers.  You could certainly ask on the freebsd-usb@ mailing list about 
the USB stuff.

-- 
John Baldwin