-----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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | 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----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
