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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:42:26 +0200
From: Arjan Van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 hangs on boot, 5.3 works
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On 4/21/05, Arjan Van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/21/05, Arjan Van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 on a Lex Neo system
> > (http://www.lex.com.tw, a small form factor PC with a 1GHz VIA C3
> > processor).
> >
> > The system hangs when booting the kernel, at this point:
> >
> > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> > CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah+RNG+ACE (998.70-MHz 686-class CPU)
> >   Origin =3D "CentaurHauls"  Id =3D 0x698  Stepping =3D 8
> >   Features=3D0x381b93f<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,PAT=
,MMX,FXSR,S
> > SE>
> > real memory  =3D 125763584 (119 MB)
> > avail memory =3D 113414144 (108 MB)
> > npx0: [FAST]
> >
> (...)
> >
> > Booting in safe mode, turning off ACPI in the BIOS of the machine and
> > changing 'PNP OS' to yes or no in the BIOS does not help.
>=20
> I just tried changing hint.npx.0.flags to 0x07 and 0x01, which also
> doesn't help.

I found something that looks like a solution for NetBSD on Google Groups he=
re:

http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3D41555.144.59.164.106.1105346400.s=
quirrel%40144.59.164.106

where they use

npx*  at acpi?  # Math coprocessor

to force npx via the acpi table. Is something like this possible on FreeBSD=
?

Arjan