Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:40:47 +0000 From: Paul Waring <pwaring@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 5.3 install hangs part way through booting Message-ID: <8953a1db05032315404bfd8cc4@mail.gmail.com>
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I've been trying to get FreeBSD installed on my laptop for some time now, but I've always ended up running into the same problem of the system hanging at boot. At the moment I'm using the 5.3 release CDs (tried both the boot-only and minimal ones) and I can get to the "Welcome to BSD!" screen fine. However, when I choose the default option from there I get some messages scrolling up about it booting the kernel and detecting some ACPI stuff, but after a few seconds it gets to this message and then hangs: uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB Controller USB-A> port 0xefe0-0xefff irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] I've had a look around on Google but not found anything to do with this issue or with my laptop (Toshiba Satellite M10 Pro, 1.3Ghz Centrino with 256Mb RAM). One of the BSD people I know suggested booting with ACPI disabled, which I tried but this time it hung on the following message: pcib1: <PCIBIOS PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1 which is actually less into the booting process than it gets with ACPI enabled so I don't think this helped very much. Booting in safe mode also hangs at this point. I've not been able to find any information elsewhere that sheds light on this (allthough I could be looking in the wrong places - since I don't have a clue what is actually wrong I'm probably not using the right search terms). Windows 2000/XP both work fine, as does every version of Linux I've tried (the machine dual boots 2000/Ubuntu at the moment) but I really want to get FreeBSD on it. Does anyone have any ideas on what could be wrong, or what I should try to get around the problem? Thanks in advance. Paul -- Rogue Tory www.roguetory.org.uk
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