[nycbug-talk] problem booting FBSD 4.11 or 5.3

[George R.]

On Apr 6, 2005, at 1:39 PM, pete wright wrote:

> On Apr 6, 2005 7:06 AM, George R. <george at sddi.net> wrote:
>> The 3u box I have has the following components:
>>
>> Adaptec SATA RAID card AAR-2810SA
>>
>> Intel P4 PSCH-SR Series with E7210/6300ESB Chipset
>>
>> The problem:
>>
>> 4.11 Boots and the dmesg passes by, but it reboots by the end of the
>> dmesg
>>
>> 5.3 boots and borks out at the initial stages right before/during the
>> Daemon menu screen.
>>
>> I googled a bit, but nothing useful . . . ideas?
>>
>
> Is this a test :)
>
> stupid questions first.  with 5.x have you tried booting w/o AICPI
> support.  maybe you can diable AICPI in the BIOS.  with 4.x can you
> boot into single user?  i know this is going to hurt, but have you
> tired booting w/ other bsd's or even a linux live cd?  if you don't
> want to use knoppix (and have to wait to kde to load of cd-rom)
> slackware has an execellent live cd.
>

I'll let you know what happens with AICPI disabled, plus the 5.3 
snapshot and 6.0.

George