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Subject: Re: 5.2.1 hanging on boot
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Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@cfl.rr.com> writes:

> I just installed 5.2.1 and upon boot, it hangs at:
> 
> Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2153331273 Hz quality 800
> Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
> 
> It also did this when trying to boot via the 5.2.1 install CD, which was
> circumvented by booting via floppy... 
> 
> It does not do this with 4.9. 
> 
> any ideas?

You're booting without ACPI?