occasional hang in booting dflybsd (code from 6th Feb 2004) on notebook

[Jeroen]

"Tomaz Borstnar" <tomaz.borstnar at xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jeroen wrote:
> > "Toma¾ Bor¹tnar" <tomaz.borstnar at xxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > >installed MI handler for int 7
> >
> > This looks very much like the problem I'm experiencing with very
different
> > hardware. Can you tell where it hangs when you boot in verbose mode (if
it
> > hangs at all)?
> This is old FreeBSD problem actually. Sometimes it hangs RIGHT after
> printing out version of the kernel. It happens much more often with
> notebook being on battery and A LOT more often if I am impatient and
> manually try to speed up booting by not waiting for any timeouts before
> actual booting of kernel.

This can mean your experiencing a different problem. In my case it always
hangs after the "installed MI handler for int 7". The boot verbose question
was just to pinpoint the problem more acurately.

Jeroen Ketema