Can only boot my laptop in safe mode - FreeBSD 5.4

[illy .]

> > >Hi all ,I posted this in freebsd-questions, but no one seemed to be
> > >able to help me, so I was wondering if anyone here could?
> > >I'm having major dramas
> > >getting FreeBSD working on my Laptop.
> > >It is a Compaq Presario M2000.
> > >System specs:
> > >CPU - Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor - 1600 MHz
> > >Motherboard - Quanta 3091
> > >RAM - 256 MB DDR
> > >Disk Drive - ST94019A (37 GB, IDE)
> > >Optical Drive - HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4244N
> > >Video Adapter - ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M (32 MB)
> > >Audio Adapter - Conexant AC-Link Audio

> >Try hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in the loader.

>Thanks for the answer John. Yet I have already tried that:
> > >I have tried adding a couple of other options to the /boot/loader.conf
> > >file. None of which make any difference at all, including:
> > >hint.apci.0.disabled="1"

>The quotes, are my way of saying what options I've tried (sorry).
>Anyway it didn't make any difference. I am now looking at playing with
>dma options, I think this is where my problem may well be. I don't know
>much about it yet but I will learn.
>Thanks again!
>illy (Lillian Page)

Problem Solved! WOOHOO! I just added:
nodevice  apic
nodevice  smp
In the kernel, Then it when I rebooted It stopped on sio0. So I just added:
hint.sio.0.disabled="1"
hint.sio.1.disabled="1"
To the loader, problem solved.
Thanks again!
illy