8.0-RELEASE install freezes

[Adam Vande More]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Steve Bernacki <freebsd at f.copacetic.net>wrote:

> Following up on my original post, I went back and tried to install
> 7.3-RELEASE.  The install once again hung right around the time when the
> system would normally announce "Timecounters tick every xxx msec".
>
> Since disabling ACPI and PnP doesn't seem to help, I'm wondering what might
> have changed between 6.x and 7.3 as it relates to the kernel bootstrapping
> process at this stage?  I am actually netbooting this install, so I have the
> ability to compile a custom kernel to troubleshoot this further.  I'd really
> like to install 8.0 on this hardware and get a few more years of life out of
> it.
>

Try updating the BIOS, and tweaking settings there.


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Adam Vande More