From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 17 19:51:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA13941 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 May 1996 19:51:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mother.cdrom.com (mother.cdrom.com [204.216.28.172]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA13932 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 19:51:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (support@localhost) by mother.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA19732 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 19:51:28 -0700 Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 19:51:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Hsu To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD on Dell Latitude portable (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 10:00:01 -0700 From: Darren Croke To: support@cdrom.com Cc: djc@shellx.best.com Subject: FreeBSD on Dell Latitude portable Hello, I just purchased FreeBSD and I'm trying to install it on a new Dell Latitude XPi 75Mhz pentium portable. I have 24 megs of Ram and I'm dual booting Windows 95 and FreeBSD using System Commander. I shrunk my original 800 MB DOS partion in half using fips.exe from the Linux distribution to make space for the FreeBSD partition. I then installed via NFS. The kernel loads from hard disk, probes all the i/o devices, and then hangs. The system will not respond to key strokes including <^c>, , <^d>, . Do you have any suggestions as to how I might proceed in debugging this problem ? Darren Croke. ps. FYI, I had to turn off Dell's power management in order to get the system to boot the FreeBSD kernel at all.