5.2.1 hanging on boot

[Lowell Gilbert]

Aaron Walker <ka0ttic at cfl.rr.com> writes:

> I just installed 5.2.1 and upon boot, it hangs at:
> 
> Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2153331273 Hz quality 800
> Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
> 
> It also did this when trying to boot via the 5.2.1 install CD, which was
> circumvented by booting via floppy... 
> 
> It does not do this with 4.9. 
> 
> any ideas?

You're booting without ACPI?