problem during FreeBSD 5.2.1 installation on Toshiba laptop

Marco Trentini mark at remotelab.org
Tue Jul 27 04:35:13 PDT 2004


On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:24:24PM +0100, Konstantinos Pachopoulos wrote:
> During FreeBSD 5.2.1 installation on my first laptop
> (Toshiba A40-221) the following lines appears as the
> OS gets ready for the installation:
> 
> acpi_tz0:<thermal zone> on acpi0
> pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI Bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on
> acpi0
> pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
> 
> and then the installation pauses; it sticks exactly at
> these lines doing nothing else.
> I don't know a lot of details about computers and i am
> not a FreeBSD expert, so i can neither interpret this
> message, nor fix it.
> Can somebody explain me what's the problem and what
> can i do to fix it?

Turn off ACPI (option 2) in the first freebsd menu (that with 
ascii daemon) and try again your installation, good luck!!

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Marco Trentini                mark at remotelab.org
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