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FreeBSD boot stalls at "Timecounters tick every 1.000 ms"
Submitted by Bram Schoenmakers on 20 March, 2008 - 11:31.
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FreeBSD 6.2 sometimes stops booting the kernel, with the last message on screen:

Timecounters tick every 1.000 ms

This was a SMP kernel. As soon as I switched back to a GENERIC kernel, I haven't seen this behavior anymore.

Something to investigate better whenever I have more time, but it's a good temporary fix Smile

Update 28 March 2008:

Watch out with the freebsd-update command. This may modify the kernel and I saw the problem reappear with such modified kernel. Reinstalling the kernel from FreeBSD CVS solved the problem.