From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 12 16:23:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A17A416A4CE for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:23:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.36.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B03E43D1D for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:23:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from [12.32.36.74] (imagination.dreamchaser.org. [12.32.36.74]) i8CGN7Xo001031; Sun, 12 Sep 2004 10:23:07 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Message-ID: <414477EC.2060702@dreamchaser.org> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 10:23:08 -0600 From: freebsd@dreamchaser.org User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Harr References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:23:09 -0000 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... >