Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 11:00:48 +0100 From: "Jorn Argelo" <jorn@wcborstel.nl> To: "Andrew Bird" <andrew@birdman.cx> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD won't install or boot on HP NX9110 notebook Message-ID: <20041108095850.M85561@wcborstel.nl> In-Reply-To: <008601c4c578$f7b247a0$0c80fea9@VISITS.local> References: <008601c4c578$f7b247a0$0c80fea9@VISITS.local>
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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.
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