Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:13:24 +0000 From: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9 installation woes (on thinkpad 560X) Message-ID: <405D86E4.9000908@thingy.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <40579749.6010201@velvet.net> References: <40579749.6010201@velvet.net>
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On 03/17/04 00:09, David Gerard wrote: > I was advised by a few people (including the laptop's previous owner) that > FreeBSD 5.x would be quite difficult to get working with sound, and that > it would be a better idea to try with 4.9. > I have just spent a few hours carefully reinstalling the laptop with > FreeBSD 4.9. Restart for its first boot ... and it won't. It sits there at > F1 DOS > F2 FreeBSD > Default: F2 _ > and seems to consider the keyboard beneath its notice. Odd, since the > caps lock light goes on and off as expected. But nothing will get it off > this screen. > The DOS partition is a 20 meg partition for IBM system tools, as yet not > installed. It's also before the FreeBSD partition on the disk, if that's > relevant. Wiped and tried again. First with the whole disk as a FreeBSD partition, to see if 4.9 would go on at all (it did). Then with FreeBSD as the *first* partition, and a DOS partition taking the other half of the disk (my wife has decided the laptop will be more usable dual-booting into Windows). Now it's working fine :-) Still haven't got sound going, but will let the list know when I do! - d.
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