Justin wrote:
I'm trying to venture into the world of BSD. Thus, I have just
recently joined the mailing list and this is my first message. I have
tried to research my question and found a similar problem, but I was
unable to find any type of solution.
Here's What's Happening:
After I boot my laptop to the installer CD and select what I'd like to
boot (I've tried the default, no acpi, and safe mode with the same
results), the installer seems to lock up the computer after the
following two lines:
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1600070929 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
At this point the computer responds to nothing but holding down the
power button, which obviously kills the power. Just in case it was
trying to work something out (after all, the "thinking" light was on),
I let my laptop sit for almost four hours with still no change.
Offhand, I'd still suspect ACPI/APM. The next step after "Timecounter"
is usually the "ACPI Timecounter" and then "ACPI CPU0".
Other than trying: a] another CD of 6.1 (maybe bad burn?) or
b] another version of FreeBSD, I wouldn't know what to suggest.
I have used Debian and Fedora on this computer previously with no
problems (and obviously Windows works also).
Since there are really no other options as far as booting goes, I
really don't know what I've done wrong or what I can do.
Well, there might be a few remaining things to try. See
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/article.html
http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd-6.0-rc1.php
(and Google, where I found those), for more information about
APM/ACPI problems.
Dan (Freebsddiary) shows himself hitting "any other key for command
prompt" during stage 2 boot, then issuing:
unset acpi_load
boot -v
Seems like the "verbose" boot might be worth looking at; perhaps
you could get a better idea just exactly what is up with the boot
process.
Just is case it helps, here is some information about my system:
Compaq Presario M2105US
AMD Mobile Sempron processor
1GB RAM4
ATI Express 200M graphics card w/ shared memory
Also, I've tried to use the 2CD set and Boot Only CD for the i386.
Hmm, then maybe the "try a different CD" won't work. Sorry
I've got no more thoughts ATM. Good luck!
Kevin Kinsey
--
Calvin Coolidge looks as if he had been weaned on a pickle.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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