From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 20 15:23:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Bespin.worldnet.net (bespin.worldnet.net [195.3.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB93510E05 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 15:23:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pcasidy@worldnet.fr) Received: from greatoak.home (p14-026.province.worldnet.fr [195.3.14.26]) by Bespin.worldnet.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA05064; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 00:21:47 +0100 (CET) Received: (from pcasidy@localhost) by greatoak.home (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA00984; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 00:07:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pcasidy) Message-Id: <199902202307.AAA00984@greatoak.home> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 00:07:20 +0100 (CET) From: Philippe CASIDY Subject: Re: HELP!!! Install Kernel hangs on laptop To: pcasidy@worldnet.fr Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199902192239.XAA01284@greatoak.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19 Feb, Philippe CASIDY wrote: > Hello! > > I have a new UNIKA laptop with the following charateristics: > - AMD K6-2 333 > - 32 Mb RAM > - 4Go IDE > - CD 24x IDE > > Beyond of the problem I cannot boot from the CDrom (I think of a bug in > the BIOS because it is suppose to do it) I have this particular strang > problem: > > after inserting an install floppy (FreeBSD 2.2.8), the kernel is > uncompressed and just hangs right after displaying: > jkh@time.cdrom.com:... > Okay, here is the solution... In the BIOS, there is a parameter for power management which is related to the speed of the CPU : - in doze mode (default mode) the kernel hangs - in full speed mode everything is okay (ouf!) Hope it will help some one one of those days... Phil. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message