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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
