I had the same problem (continous boot cycle if booting from the CDROM media).
In my case FreeBSD 5.3 did not like my Promise IDE controller ...
babaloo munchies schrieb:
One difference between 4.8 & 5.3 is that the 5.3 loads ACPI , but is the ACPI module loaded in the installation kernel? Is it an interrupt problem? I don't know. But I do have 5.3 running happily on it now thanks to teh floppies.
AFAIK - FreeBSD, per defualt, does not boot with ACPI enabled.
-- Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards Daniel S. Haischt
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