Re: amd64 freeze during boot

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 00:13 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 09:49:39PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> > I have a new PC (Dell Inspiron 530) that freezes when booting a -current (as
> > of today) amd64 or i386 kernel, right after timecounter (in boot -v output).
> > NetBSD 4.x boots right into sysinst though, so the hardware should be fine.
> > 
> > Any hint where to start looking?  I tried disabling ioapic, acpi, usb, ...
>
> Disabling USB in the BIOS makes the system boot.  But there's not much else
> I can do, since the keyboard is USB also...
> 
> Disabling USB in userconf(4) isn't enough.  What else can I try?

Just curious to see if you have my PR/38752.
My "fix" was to disable the ps/2 keyboard in the kernel.

Thanks

Roy