Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:16:46 +0100 From: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, scott@sremick.net Subject: Re: Hang on install of 5.3 on old Presario Message-ID: <200412220917.02579.4711@chello.at> In-Reply-To: <20041222051348.71854.qmail@web53601.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041222051348.71854.qmail@web53601.mail.yahoo.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 December 2004 06:13, Scott I. Remick wrote: > I'm trying to breathe some life into some old hardware by giving it a task > of a server. I've burnt the full 5.3 ISO to CD. I can get it to read the CD > fine and start to boot. I get as far as the "Welcome to FreeBSD" menu (with > the ASCII daemon). No matter what option I choose, the bar then spins for a > moment and then the computer hangs. > > I've tried upgrading the BIOS to the latest offered from Compaq's website > (although it's dated 1998). I've turned off PnP, and all unneeded ports > (including serial, parallel, USB). I've tried both the "DOS" and "Other" > setting for the HDD geometry. I've turned off all power-saving. Nothing > seems to work. I've also tried using the 3 floppies... same problem. Try to disable acpi at the loader(8) prompt: set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 Cheers, ch - -- Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at> | OpenPGP KeyID 0x3BCA53BE OpenPGP-Key at hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net and http://pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFByS1+09WjGjvKU74RAo77AJ9SPdN8YWFzp0Y6vUfJyu/J/KadtACfYWfi +lZhwsAV4tpv1rtDkdyTcC0= =bQsj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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