From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 17 13:25:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCB521065672 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:25:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rui.pfcosta@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f227.google.com (mail-fx0-f227.google.com [209.85.220.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D1A8FC14 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:25:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm27 with SMTP id 27so7691470fxm.3 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:25:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=2s/n30tF476jdvrdXue8651r8PyZeKY20BL3Yxd11/c=; b=cXSgRCXpEPFeXU02nFWn/ir5BaZH7ughlWH3WU3e2wnF48Dw//qbbAyGj9XBn4vYcH Zy3UvOIYKFZot6WOsp/3D/xlCSsjFxHqaf6x2qYGxcGNIP8mIIulhizmoe8Ftqugwu98 phVBRLtf/RaL/SUP33OQWwsvXn6ZowzCr477o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=hulUgsMsBj21ps0yU610cOq/WgRKt/L60ekUbfzE9JUFvDze8M/OO/Fdv22x+uuNBh 8xBVzW+iWoHnUIrSb1RYgTa92OcaeRM2hXqBbtTxX4QAlvQb8b7sK02ePEHF4+6cEGLn SHF1mLnWnEKFfB4uRlwiqsMYR9wobMxySeUtE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.168.230 with SMTP id l38mr951774hbe.37.1258464312097; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:25:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:25:12 +0000 Message-ID: From: Rui Costa To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: FreeBSD installation freeze! - FreeBSD doesn't like my hardware? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:25:13 -0000 When installing freebsd (7.2, 8.0 betas, rc1, rc2, rc3 - AMD64) on a Clevo M540SR laptop (chipset VIA VN896), after menu option selection, the boot process freezes at "Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0". On verbose booting it freezes giving some mode information: md0: Preloaded image 4194304 bytes at 0xffffffff80c4be40 ATA PseudoRAID loaded flowtable cleaner started warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set accurately Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 Start_init: trying /sbin/init Start_init: trying /sbin/oinit Start_init: trying /sbin/init.bak Start_init: trying /rescue/init Start_init: trying /stand/sysinstall I've tried already several boot hints (any of them with success) such as: apic.0.disabled = 1 sio.0.disasabled = 1 sio.1.disabled = 1 fdc.disabled = 1 kbdmux.0.disabled = 1 A possible solution I found over the internet would be to disable USB 2.0 support on bios, but bios options are very limited and won't allow me to do that. I can install FreeBSD 6.4 without any trouble and later upgrade to 7.0 went flawlessly, but upgrade to 7.2 brings up the freezes again on boot.