I belive you mean the first installation of FreeBSD 4.10?
Disable acpi on your notebook, in most cases it'll work.

> Hi
> 
> I have been trying to install 4.10 on my laptop to be a 
> development environment for m0n0 but I seam to be hitting a 
> snag and wondering if any one has any ideas?
> 
> Once I start installing it does the kernel configuration and 
> then hangs on probing.
> 
> On asking in the FreeBSD group they say to try 5.3 instead 
> but I think that will cause me problems with m0n0

Yes, a lot

> 
> Thanks