Re: 8.0-RELEASE install freezes

2010-05-12 Thread Steve Bernacki
Following up on my original post, I went back and tried to install 7.3-RELEASE. The install once again hung right around the time when the system would normally announce Timecounters tick every xxx msec. Since disabling ACPI and PnP doesn't seem to help, I'm wondering what might have changed

Re: 8.0-RELEASE install freezes

2010-05-12 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Steve Bernacki free...@f.copacetic.netwrote: Following up on my original post, I went back and tried to install 7.3-RELEASE. The install once again hung right around the time when the system would normally announce Timecounters tick every xxx msec. Since

Re: 8.0-RELEASE install freezes

2010-05-12 Thread Steve Bernacki
On Wed, 12 May 2010, Adam Vande More wrote: Try updating the BIOS, and tweaking settings there. Hi Adam, The BIOS is at it's latest version. It is an ancient system, so perhaps it's time to just retire the hardware, but I didn't want to give up without poking at it a bit more. Steve

Re: 8.0-RELEASE install freezes

2010-05-12 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Steve Bernacki free...@f.copacetic.netwrote: The BIOS is at it's latest version. It is an ancient system, so perhaps it's time to just retire the hardware, but I didn't want to give up without poking at it a bit more. This may or may not apply your

8.0-RELEASE install freezes

2010-04-30 Thread Steve Bernacki
Hi, I have an ancient Pentium II 350Mhz system that I've used as a home firewall for several years. I decided to try to upgrade it from 6.1 to 8.0 today, but I was unable to get the kernel to boot without freezing. The point at which it froze was: vga0: Generic ISA VGA at port 0x3c0-0x3df