5.1 Hangs on boot

[Derrick Ryalls]

> 
> Hi everybody.
> Got a problem with my desktop running FreeBSD 5.1, hanging on 
> boot. Connected to Internet via adsl and a  FreeBSD 4.8 NAT 
> Gateway-box.
> > uname -a
> FreeBSD thor.swedehost.com 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE
> #0: Sat Jul 26 16:35:38 CEST 2003 
> hasse at thor.swedehost.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/THOR  i386
> 
> Stopping at Entropy harvesting.
> I have to press "CTRL+C" to continue booting.
> Then everything works as it's supposed to. ( I think ? ) 
> Frankly, I don't have a clue on what I'm doing, but I've 
> disabled ACPI in my /boot/device.hints file to get my floppy 
> drive to work, and I've commented out all SCSI devices exept 
> device scbus, and all Raid in my kernel, because I don't have any.
> 
> <Snip from bootmessage>
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s3a
> Loading configuration files
> Entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet point_to_point
> </Snip>

http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/randomness.html

Following this might help, though it is more geared from 4.x