Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:49:25 +1000 From: "Andrew Bird" <andrew@birdman.cx> To: <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: FreeBSD won't install or boot on HP NX9110 notebook Message-ID: <20040926234940.4C504A4369@eyre.southern.net.au>
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G'day... I recently purchased a HP NX9110 Notebook - and it runs beautifully - anything except BSD... Windows & Gentoo both run fine. Anyway, when I try and boot from one of the BSD install Cd's, it gets to the bit after the Daemon menu, does the acpi.ko thing, and then shuts down. Nothing more. When I try the other menu options, such as ACPI disabled, safe mode, etc, I get the exact same thing. Oh, and it doesn't matter what version of BSD I try and install - I happen to have CD's lying around for everything from 5.3-BETA to 3.5.1-RELEASE - all of which I have tried - and I get the exact same result. I even installed the HDD from another notebook into it and tried booting from a 5.2.1-RELEASE install on that - same problem. I should also mention that I've tried all of the above on a completely different notebook of the same model with the same results, and so I am confident it is the model of notebook - rather than this notebook in particular - causing me troubles. If I even knew where to start troubleshooting, I would - but it doesn't give me much of an opportunity. I've gone through the bios, but as with most notebooks these days, the bios is kinda boring. I've tried different bios versions as well, to no avail. Please please please help me get BSD up and running... :) Thanks! Andrew Bird P.S. I've posted this same question in the comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc NG and freebsd-questions@freebsd.org over the past few weeks, but have had very little response, and they suggested I head in this direction...
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