Tested with FreeBSD 8.0, PC-BSD 8, as well as FreeBSD 8.1 beta. Hardware is an HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop. When I put in the BSD DVD to install, I get the cd loader, and up to the line '/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x8d9548'. The computer sits there for a minute or two, before rebooting itself. I found, however, that if I hit escape in bios and explicitly choose to boot from the CD/DVD drive, the install will work just fine. Fix: Explicitly choosing to boot from cd/dvd. How-To-Repeat: Burn FreeBSD iso, put in drive and turn it on :-).
Here is the output from lshal on that machine. -- -Austin
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-i386 This could be machine-specific.
For bugs matching the following criteria: Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01 Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags. Mail being skipped
Is this still an issue with any current RELEASE or pre-release version of FreeBSD?
^Triage: I'm sorry that this PR did not get addressed in a timely fashion. By now, the version that it was created against is long out of suppoprt. Please re-open if it is still a problem on a supported version.