Problems booting

[Nikolas Britton]

James Mathers wrote:

>Hi,
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>I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 on my Toshiba Tecra 9100, using the 5.3 boot-only CD, which I burnt from an iso I downloaded. Unfortunately, it hangs in the Freebsd boot-up sequence after the bootloader had loaded with the last message being: " uhci3: [GIANT-LOCKED]". 
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>I think it's related to the bug reported in this link : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2004-October/009618.html, but I'm unable to determine what the best course of action is from here. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Any, if so, how did you get around it?
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Disable USB in the BIOS and try it again. You could also try verbose 
loading, safe mode, and disable ACPI at the boot menu if that doesn't help.