From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 19 22:30:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A55B3106566C for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:30:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from richard.delaurell@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f54.google.com (mail-ww0-f54.google.com [74.125.82.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 310388FC17 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:30:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb18 with SMTP id 18so2254644wwb.13 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:30:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=O2sS3YAMzJAKaIPd8i9ZG7Yn+P6ldwzGcNE5AyXKoa4=; b=OJFGQhD72yrj4PhVlBwrBbOC2itwN5z4xcWsLbjfhMJHPqkZZdPqSnoNhQZfMucadK zyEGuPdqjplM65mfZqn99JrbM5q9EUo+l/YTjqWg03PgebedzzZp9YJKo7r/uI+XrNt5 PBgBwCeABm9mhT4fNQ4oL/Aa88r8SQmxjLEMs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=KvTnfk9nRUbsCQNrYsTxRLtOT8rkQ6KSCn3kjZNQKhfdgjKLc+sB/8AdqBW/Yvc5xq qsBJ7j6Xm/whVurAxmU/+PStYI1uYo4e0CgxV12bUNpI5c7PSI91kaMxdPEvQCwasSzb +1OS335h5Au8bptB+dYciGjuMwRSf/NrnPf7s= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.88.5 with SMTP id z5mr1733114wee.192.1269037821734; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:30:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7ff5545f1003190955m4a4b3050p369e1044216edab1@mail.gmail.com> References: <7ff5545f1003120000t3db354b0pe405b9f56b38979b@mail.gmail.com> <7ff5545f1003190620n5835d60dh6168c9c2621becd5@mail.gmail.com> <4324dbec1003190719t45036b4fvb44ecff3049e38e2@mail.gmail.com> <7ff5545f1003190955m4a4b3050p369e1044216edab1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:30:21 -0500 Message-ID: <4324dbec1003191530x42fe13cbxd82ab262163f4f74@mail.gmail.com> From: Richard DeLaurell To: Anoop Kumar Narayanan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:30:23 -0000 Are you able to get to the FreeBSD splash screen (where you get a countdown to startup with a menu of 6 selections)? One of the choices there is boot w/o ACPI; you could try that if you get that far. Good luck-- Richard On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Richard DeLaurell > wrote: > >>On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan gmail.com>wrote: > >>I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with > >>absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed). > >>Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to > >>the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses > >>for about 15 secs and the computer suddenly powers down. I was able to > >>boot into the system occasionally lets say about 1 in 5 boots. I am > >>able to install and boot into Linux without any problem. > > > > > > So then you are attempting to startup using a power adaptor (i.e. your > > computer is plugged in to a wall socket)? > Yes. I don't know if its a specific Athlon XP related problem as I did > observe a similar post some years ago. And, Apparently its the same > thing. > http://osdir.com/ml/os.freebsd.devel.hardware/2004-10/msg00044.html > In this case its the installation. In my case its after the installation. > > > > I had the reverse problem a while ago with Slackware shutting down in the > > middle of installation onto a Toshiba laptop while FreeBSD has always > been > > no problem. > > > > My guess is that these issues reflect power management settings, perhaps > > even something in the bios. > Maybe its something in the BIOS, but the thing is that Linux boots > fine on the machine. Maybe some driver is crashing and is causing a > reboot of the machine. Are there any critical drivers in the system > that can result in such a problem. > > > > Does this occur when you use the installation or boot-only disks? > I can install it just fine, but can't seem to to boot into the > installed version (Once its been installed). > I did create the FreeBSD swap partition before the root file-system > (and it still seems to label the root file-system as 'a'), Would this > affect the system boot up in anyway ? > > > > Sorry this is not more help to you. > > > > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >