Rui Costa
2009-Nov-17 13:25 UTC
FreeBSD installation freeze! - FreeBSD doesn't like my hardware?
When installing freebsd (7.2, 8.0 betas, rc1, rc2, rc3 - AMD64) on a Clevo M540SR laptop (chipset VIA VN896), after menu option selection, the boot process freezes at "Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0". On verbose booting it freezes giving some mode information: md0: Preloaded image 4194304 bytes at 0xffffffff80c4be40 ATA PseudoRAID loaded flowtable cleaner started warning: no time-of-day clock registered, system time will not be set accurately Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 Start_init: trying /sbin/init Start_init: trying /sbin/oinit Start_init: trying /sbin/init.bak Start_init: trying /rescue/init Start_init: trying /stand/sysinstall I've tried already several boot hints (any of them with success) such as: apic.0.disabled = 1 sio.0.disasabled = 1 sio.1.disabled = 1 fdc.disabled = 1 kbdmux.0.disabled = 1 A possible solution I found over the internet would be to disable USB 2.0 support on bios, but bios options are very limited and won't allow me to do that. I can install FreeBSD 6.4 without any trouble and later upgrade to 7.0 went flawlessly, but upgrade to 7.2 brings up the freezes again on boot.