5.2.1 hanging on boot

[Aaron Walker]

On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 19:18, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Aaron Walker <ka0ttic at cfl.rr.com> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 16:01, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > > 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?
> > 
> > If that is something you have to do manually, then no.  I'm just booting
> > normally.  How would I turn off ACPI?
> 
> Please read the errata and release notes before starting the install.
> I promise you'll have a much easier time.

Well, I read the errata.  Unfortunately, I am using GRUB as my boot
loader (this system runs win xp, linux, openbsd, and freebsd), which
doesn't support ufs2, so I have to boot FreeBSD 5+ indirectly using
grub's chainloading.  I am therefore unable to pass any kernel options,
and I don't have FreeBSD's boot loader installed, which I assume is
where you boot "safe mode" from.  

Is there any other way to turn off ACPI?

Thanks again,
Aaron