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Date:      Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:24:30 +1000
From:      Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
To:        "Joseph Yeager" <joeyea323@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems Booting
Message-ID:  <20071010002430.18e2b3f5@meijome.net>
In-Reply-To: <44f12db00710081008u2827a3f4ib3ec3dfb477f7246@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:08:37 -0800
"Joseph Yeager" <joeyea323@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a Tosbhia M65-S9092 laptop that I've been trying to get FreeBSD on.
> I've tried 6.2-RELEASE, 5.5-RELEASE, and PC-BSD v1.4 and they all have the
> same problem's booting.  The installation procedure runs perfectly fine
> using the normal boot procedure (option 1).  No matter what option I hit
> when trying to boot after installation, it seems to completely freeze.  If I
> select an option that has ACPI enabled, it will do this after displaying a
> message about loading acpi.ko.  I say that it seems to completely freeze
> because I'm not sure if it is still actually loading something and perhaps
> I'm not seeing it.

have you tried disabling APIC  (not ACPI, but APIC):

in /boot/loader.conf.local, add
hint.apic.0.disabled="1"

i think you can do

set hint.apic.0.disabled="1"

from the boot prompt and see if it'll work. 

B

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