Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 11:24:22 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org, Matt Hewitt <rudefyet@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Compaq R3000Z Message-ID: <200504011124.22953.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <eb5f13370503312238d05b1cf@mail.gmail.com> References: <eb5f13370503312238d05b1cf@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 01 April 2005 01:38 am, Matt Hewitt wrote: > This is a cry for help. > > I own a compaq r3000z laptop...AMD Athlon XP-M....the laptop just > powers off when trying to boot the install cd > > from my understanding there have been recent patches included in the > 5.4 Beta 1 release of FreeBSD for x86_64...but these patches have > failed to make it into the x86 (32 bit) release, because the install > disk still fails to boot > > I just wanted to inform the devs that not all of these laptops come > with 64 bit cpus, and it would be nice if they would include the > patches so 32 bit users like me could sucessly install FreeBSD > > Any other tips would be welcome, I'm pulling my hair out trying > different Linux distros....but i just want my FreeBSD All the patches are in both i386 and amd64. You will need to use hint.atkbd.0.flags=9 for now, though you will end up with no usable keyboard. Folks on the amd64@ list know all the various quirks needed to get this to install and the steps should be the same for both archs. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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