From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 20 12:21:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 F090D16A426 for ; Sat, 20 May 2006 12:21:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E06643D46 for ; Sat, 20 May 2006 12:21:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k4KCLELK047674; Sat, 20 May 2006 07:21:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <446F09B5.1020807@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 07:21:09 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060509 SeaMonkey/1.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.1 CD is Hanging on Install 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: Sat, 20 May 2006 12:21:18 -0000 Justin wrote: > I'm trying to venture into the world of BSD. Thus, I have just > recently joined the mailing list and this is my first message. I have > tried to research my question and found a similar problem, but I was > unable to find any type of solution. > > Here's What's Happening: > > After I boot my laptop to the installer CD and select what I'd like to > boot (I've tried the default, no acpi, and safe mode with the same > results), the installer seems to lock up the computer after the > following two lines: > > Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1600070929 Hz quality 800 > Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec > > At this point the computer responds to nothing but holding down the > power button, which obviously kills the power. Just in case it was > trying to work something out (after all, the "thinking" light was on), > I let my laptop sit for almost four hours with still no change. Offhand, I'd still suspect ACPI/APM. The next step after "Timecounter" is usually the "ACPI Timecounter" and then "ACPI CPU0". Other than trying: a] another CD of 6.1 (maybe bad burn?) or b] another version of FreeBSD, I wouldn't know what to suggest. > I have used Debian and Fedora on this computer previously with no > problems (and obviously Windows works also). > > Since there are really no other options as far as booting goes, I > really don't know what I've done wrong or what I can do. > Well, there might be a few remaining things to try. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/article.html http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd-6.0-rc1.php (and Google, where I found those), for more information about APM/ACPI problems. Dan (Freebsddiary) shows himself hitting "any other key for command prompt" during stage 2 boot, then issuing: unset acpi_load boot -v Seems like the "verbose" boot might be worth looking at; perhaps you could get a better idea just exactly what is up with the boot process. > Just is case it helps, here is some information about my system: > Compaq Presario M2105US > AMD Mobile Sempron processor > 1GB RAM4 > ATI Express 200M graphics card w/ shared memory > > Also, I've tried to use the 2CD set and Boot Only CD for the i386. > Hmm, then maybe the "try a different CD" won't work. Sorry I've got no more thoughts ATM. Good luck! Kevin Kinsey -- Calvin Coolidge looks as if he had been weaned on a pickle. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth