Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:36:09 -0500 From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@niksun.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@beta.com> Subject: Re: HP AMD64 booting problems... Message-ID: <200502281936.09544.jkim@niksun.com> In-Reply-To: <200502282356.j1SNuvnR084389@spoon.beta.com> References: <200502282356.j1SNuvnR084389@spoon.beta.com>
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On Monday 28 February 2005 06:56 pm, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > I recently picked up an HP5460 AMD64 laptop, and I recently wanted > to try FreeBSD on it. Unfortunately, both the x86 and AMD64 > versions will not boot, actually shutting the power down shortly > after the kernel finishes loading. I've tried 5.3 and 4.8 with > similar results, also cycling through disabling ACPI, "safe mode", > and going to the boot loader prompt and manually turning off > whatever I can think of. > > Does anyone have any additional suggestions (either to boot it, or > provide diagnostics), or will I be trapped to run Windows on this > rather powerful machine? :) It's infamous Compaq/HP laptop problem. http://blackk.union.edu/~black/freebsd/ FYI, all the necessary fixes are integrated in 5-STABLE now. Jung-uk Kim > -Brian
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