5.2 install hangs after menu

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:05:09PM +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> I am trying to install FreeBSD5.2 on an Athlon XP 2100+ machine with
> 512Mb ram and 20gb hdd (5gb partition for FreeBSD)MSI 745 Ultra
> motherboard.
> 
> If I select any option on the menu, it tries to install and then hangs
> saying BTX halted. Even if I use option 3 (safe mode)
> 
> If I select option 5 (verbose debug) it gives the following error
> message:
> ACPI autoload failed - no such file or directory.
> 
> Any help is appreciated, as google has turned up nothing :(
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kat.

Dear Kat,

I have recently install FreeBSD 5.2 (Release version) and ACPI is 
working just resonable good for me.

Could it be that your system doesn't support it?

-- 
Alex

Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/