On Fri, 04 May 2007 11:35:10 -0400 Russell Doucette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a gateway MX3410 laptop, and when I try to install, > sysinstall hangs or has unimaginable lag time, and then my laptop > just sends out this constant system beep at me. Is there a problem > with FreeBSD and AMD Turion CPUs? I hear a few other people are > having problems with various AMD chipsets, in particular Turions > with the same exact problem. > > Is there a workaround or patch to installing FreeBSD on my Gateway > (AMD Turion 64-x2 technology)? Thanks. >
Try disabling apic (read: apic, not acpi). set hint.apic.0.disabled=1
through loader prompt. The drawback is that other cpu cores will not
be enabled.
Update to latest -stable if you want to re-enable apic.
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Ariff Abdullah
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