On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 06:30:28PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Greg Goodman wrote: > [ ... ] > > When freebsd6.0 boots it will hang at the part that says > > Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec > > > > The system is running a Supermicro motherboard with dual 3.2 gig Xeon cpus > > and 2 gig ram. Also running an Adaptec raid 5 card. > > > > If we boot up in safe mode it boots fine. > > Ah, that was a useful bit of information to mention. Booting in safe mode > disables ACPI and the APIC, which also means that SMP will not be enabled. > You > might try hunting around for an updated BIOS for the motherboard, or try > tweaking the power-management/ACPI section of your BIOS. > > However, if you can boot a working system using safe mode, you can also try to > use cvsup to update the system to 6.1-PRERELEASE, and see whether that works > better for you.
Or you can just download the 6.1-PRERELEASE install media and see if that will boot. Kris
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