problem during FreeBSD 5.2.1 installation on Toshiba laptop

Tue Jul 27 05:20:10 PDT 2004

--- Marco Trentini <mark at remotelab.org> wrote: > 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!!
> 
> -- 
> Marco Trentini                mark at remotelab.org
> http://www.remotelab.org/
>  
Unfortunately this doesn't work; installation pauses
now too and the last 3 lines are:
"pci0:<display> at device 2.1 (no driver attached)
uhci0:<Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB Controller USB-A> port
0xcfe0-0xcfff irq 10 at device 29.0 on pci0"

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