Booting stops on sysinstall

From: Eivind Olsen (eivind_at_aminor.no)
Date: 01/07/04

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    Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 08:22:41 +0100
To: current@FreeBSD.ORG

    Hello.

    I just tried to boot FreeBSD 5.2-RC2 from CD (to install it) but it stops.
    I see there's already a PR for this dated 28th of December 2003: i386/60671

    The laptop I'm trying to install FreeBSD on is not the same model/make as
    the one in the PR (the PR mentions a Toshiba Satellite, this one is a
    Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook).

    Doing a verbose boot tells me that it stops while trying to start
    sysinstall. The last lines of output are:

    start_init: trying /sbin/init
    start_init: trying /sbin/oinit
    start_init: trying /sbin/init.old
    start_init: trying /stand/sysinstall

    (could be spelling errors, I don't have that laptop in front of me right
    now)

    There's no error message, things just hang there. If I remember correctly,
    doing a non-verbose boot, the last text that's printed is "mounting root
    from ufs: /dev/md0".

    Are there any things I should do to perhaps find out why it just hangs? Any
    suggestions? 

    -- 
Regards / Hilsen
Eivind Olsen
<eivind@aminor.no>
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