From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 10:00:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E0516A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 10:00:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (wcborstel.demon.nl [82.161.134.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB90943D2D for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 10:00:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jorn@wcborstel.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD754171; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 11:00:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.wcborstel.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 55344-01; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 11:00:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1EA94167; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 11:00:48 +0100 (CET) From: "Jorn Argelo" To: "Andrew Bird" Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 11:00:48 +0100 Message-Id: <20041108095850.M85561@wcborstel.nl> In-Reply-To: <008601c4c578$f7b247a0$0c80fea9@VISITS.local> References: <008601c4c578$f7b247a0$0c80fea9@VISITS.local> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.41 20040926 X-OriginatingIP: 82.161.134.53 (jorn) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mail.wcborstel.nl cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD won't install or boot on HP NX9110 notebook X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:00:56 -0000 On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 20:54:37 +1100, Andrew Bird wrote > 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-RELEASE 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. > Have you tried disabling ACPI in your BIOS? If I boot without ACPI support, but it is enabled in the BIOS, I get a kernel panic during boot. A notebook without ACPI support is rather shabby though :/ Cheers, Jorn.