From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 12 14:25:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBC2A106566C for ; Wed, 12 May 2010 14:25:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DA418FC19 for ; Wed, 12 May 2010 14:25:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws1 with SMTP id 1so119366vws.13 for ; Wed, 12 May 2010 07:25:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=mMuATdNNiDgbZFKOpYu+hKUCEUBNe7GogPI0RRQPMXE=; b=ZgZgaGGh8/xdRyIEg6stJf37y/Kwxef7qMowxLmFdLo1CRaYb8lzz/2NvU3a27qZ4Q MvSiaj17VIrDrIH1zZDcNZ565Rtqfw7A9mC3vGdDD5/thutvdg4Kq1joKJle9DeNxfHa Ua6u1EYHIafAmA/ePIMbpQ2YczATQJuDSwZLw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=x8KMLnXgan1IRC/ICr4SX0xK8hTbZnmKt9vNUQUiYFUyXUTVfdh/TtGK3DuLcRiDvj ivSSJeQTJXehom3LBW8HtrCX2STGTGcli37MWKyo5EPT4sFnU4yBPVQKsbNYQIh1eSfR VJJmdARsuNwRs1mBLNLpOliWIPiPgWXd5E/fY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.220.67 with SMTP id hx3mr652135qcb.162.1273674342391; Wed, 12 May 2010 07:25:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.99.67 with HTTP; Wed, 12 May 2010 07:25:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100512100421.F35154@soma.dmz.copacetic.net> References: <4BDB9128.3060806@f.copacetic.net> <20100512100421.F35154@soma.dmz.copacetic.net> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 09:25:42 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Steve Bernacki Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE install freezes 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: Wed, 12 May 2010 14:25:44 -0000 On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Steve Bernacki wrote: > Following up on my original post, I went back and tried to install > 7.3-RELEASE. The install once again hung right around the time when the > system would normally announce "Timecounters tick every xxx msec". > > Since disabling ACPI and PnP doesn't seem to help, I'm wondering what might > have changed between 6.x and 7.3 as it relates to the kernel bootstrapping > process at this stage? I am actually netbooting this install, so I have the > ability to compile a custom kernel to troubleshoot this further. I'd really > like to install 8.0 on this hardware and get a few more years of life out of > it. > Try updating the BIOS, and tweaking settings there. -- Adam Vande More