From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 26 17:19:34 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A181065673 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:19:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost1.sentex.ca (smarthost1-6.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:1::12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A9738FC0C for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:19:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:f025:8813:7603:7e4a] (saphire3.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:f025:8813:7603:7e4a]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.14.5/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p8QHJW2L046797; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:19:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-ID: <4E80B421.6080205@sentex.net> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:19:29 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa Organization: Sentex Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jau@iki.fi References: <201109250916.p8P9G4jg044128@jau.iki.fi> In-Reply-To: <201109250916.p8P9G4jg044128@jau.iki.fi> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:1::12 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD 64 with 16 GB of memory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:19:34 -0000 On 9/25/2011 5:16 AM, Jukka A. Ukkonen wrote: > Booting proceeded as expected to the point when CD loader 1.2 was found > and the little rotor started running in the beginning of the line. >>From that moment on there was absolutely no progress. > > Any hints and pointers about what to try next would be welcome. I had seen the same symptoms in the past on some motherboards with USB LEGACY Support enabled in the BIOS. Try and disable that and boot up from the CD. You might also have to disable "something or another handoff" as well that typically is set near the USB Legacy support option. ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/