Lucas Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having a problem booting FreeBSD 5.2.1 using a 5.2.1 release CD. > The system hangs when mounting the / partition on md0. (memory disk i > think) I never make it to the gui installer. It does work if i use > safe mode. > > System hardware: > Athelon XP 2000+ (266mhz fsb) > PC2100 256mb ram > 40 gig maxtor ata 133 hdd > ASUS nforce2 based motherboard with onboard NIC > Nvidia geforce 2 AGP video 64mb > > Looking on the freebsd website, I noticed that it could be a problem > with ACPI or maybe the IDE controller. Is there a way to disable this > on the installed version? I'm hoping its the ACPI and not the ata133 > ide controller. The ide controller is the nforce2 which the release > notes say it supports.
There's a boot menu with ASCII art of the FreeBSD daemon, at which you can select "no ACPI"... _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"