Problems booting

[James Mathers]

Thanks very much - this solved my problem.


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From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd at nbritton.org>
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Subject: Re: Problems booting
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 05:08:24 -0600
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James Mathers wrote:

>Hi,
>
>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]".
>
>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?
>
>
>
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.