Installing FreeBSD 7.1 on Presario v2000 laptop

[Dmitry Kolosov]

On Tuesday 06 January 2009 23:03:52 John Hendy wrote:
> I found this post to a mailing list for FreeBSD 6.0 on your laptop by
> googling for "FreeBSD Compaq Presario V2000". Hopefully it can help you
> out. The same 'timecounter' problem is referenced, so perhaps you'll be
> able to extract your solution (seemed to be recompiling the kernel) from
> the post?
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2006-January/007715.html
>
> Best of luck!
>
>
> -John
>
> 2009/1/6 Raúl Oyanedel Westermeyer <royanwes at yahoo.com>
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I've join this mailing list to obtain some help for installing FreeBSD on
> > my laptop, a Compaq Presario V2000 series, model v2615LA. I have the
> > FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE DVD and I boot it without problem. However, when I
> > try to install it, it halts on "Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec", and
> > de CD/DVD drive stop to read the disc. I've tried with acpi disable
> > option, and safe mode too, with the same result. I´ve also tried to
> > manually disable acpi, with 'unset acpi_load' in the promt, but nothing.
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > I've added a hardware list on a text file attached to this mail for more
> > info.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Raúl.
> >
> >
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While updating to 7.1 from 7.1-PRE i have that problem to. I have compiled 
non-GENERIC kernel, installed it, and rebooted in single user mode to 
mergemaster and install world. But boot process hangs in the same 
place("Timecounters.."). Then, i played with kernel directory at a boot time 
and loaded my old kernel. Then i commented out INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE option and 
changed HZ=300 option to HZ=250 in kernel config and recompiled kernel. And it 
booted ok, updating runs smoothly, everybody happy now. Hope this helps you!