From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 20 23:00:01 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 521491065675 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:00:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4FAA8FC12 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:00:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id mAKMtgIf039244; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:55:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id mAKMtgXW039243; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:55:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:55:42 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister To: Nerius Landys Message-ID: <20081120225542.GA39190@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <349426.9663.qm@web110207.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <560f92640811201435m48c4ff2apc98c8c091a9b34ec@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <560f92640811201435m48c4ff2apc98c8c091a9b34ec@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: questions@freebsd.org, niyichrist@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Installation 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: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:00:01 -0000 On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:35:19PM -0800, Nerius Landys wrote: > > > > I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got > > a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery > > partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when ever > > I insert the installation CD and it boots from the cdrom, the kernel does > > not come up. Instead, I got this bunch of digits just scrolling down my > > screen indefinitely. The laptop came with a windows XP OS and I am trying to > > dual boot. I want to use the recovery partition for my FreeBSD. > > > > > > I am acquainted with the scrolling digits problem. I installed FreeBSD 7.0 > onto a server machine which did not have a built-in CDROM drive. Instead, I > hooked up a USB CDROM drive and tried to boot from it. This is when I got > the scrolling digits problem. After asking about this problem on the > forums, if I remember correctly, the answer seemed to be that booting from > USB CDROM drive is not supported. My fix was to temporarily hook up an IDE > CDROM drive and boot from that. I'm not sure what the situation with your > laptop is. > > By the way, if you are installing a dual boot, wouldn't it make sense to > shrink the Windows partition first to make more room on the hard drive, then > add a new partition? There are tools that can shrink a Windows partition > easily. I wondered about that too. But, I figured that if the OP couldn't even get something to boot, he had to get past that first. Partition Magic (version 7.0 only, - version 8.0 is junk) will do fine except for USB devices/disk. But, I would suggest downloading and burning the gparted CD image and using that to shring the MS slice. ////jerry > _______________________________________________ > 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"