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Date:      Sun, 12 Sep 2004 10:23:08 -0600
From:      freebsd@dreamchaser.org
To:        Lee Harr <missive@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X
Message-ID:  <414477EC.2060702@dreamchaser.org>
In-Reply-To: <BAY2-F6PrQ6PYl0Mi8B0003d318@hotmail.com>
References:  <BAY2-F6PrQ6PYl0Mi8B0003d318@hotmail.com>

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I missed the first part of this thread, but have you tried disabling
firewire in bios?

Gary

Lee Harr wrote:

> I tried the "Boot with ACPI disabled" choice from the bootloader, but
> that one hung during the boot also... I did not try disabling ACPI in
> the BIOS, but I will give that a try.
> 
>>> Recently I found out that I can make the system boot
>>> 4.10-stable by disabling firewire in the kernel. Otherwise
>>> it freezes up while booting.
...
> Well... my thought was to set up a 2nd src directory and cvsup
> to RELENG_5_3 so I could build a 5.3 system and then create
> my own iso using a customized kernel without firewire. I just am
> not sure I can do all of that while running on a 4.10 system...
> 



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