I have a COMPAQ Presario (laptop) V2615LA with an AMD Sempron 1.83Ghz, 40 GB
HD, 256 MB RAM, I have the i386 arquitecture CD-ROM, I tried to install it, I
see the FreeBSD boot menu (the one in console mode, with FreeBSD "drown" in
white), I choose 1 (default), and in the init scripts, it stuck in a line that
says:
Timecounter tick every 1.000 msec
and the CD light turn off (the CD-ROM drive isn't reading anything) and the HD
led stays on (like there is something reading the disk, and I press ENTER, ESC,
I waited once almost two hours, but nothing)
I also tried the same CD-ROM in a PC (desktop) with Intel Celeron 2.0Ghz, 80
HD, 256 RAM and it runs perfectly (so the CD is ok), but I am out almost always
so I need to have FreeBSD in my notebook.
I installed throught my PC FreeBSD in an external HD (it connects via USB), I
plugged in my notebook, boot from external HD and its the same as the CD-ROM,
it stucks in "Timecounter tick every 1.000 msec", but the external HD runs
perfectly in the Desktop
I saw the README file in the CD and it says:
FreeBSD supports COMPAQ/HP Alpha (alpha), Intel AMD (i386)...
so I tried downloading the alpha arquitecture ISO (because I have a COMPAQ),
but when I boot from CD it happens anything (well, like it tries to read
something but it doesn't appears anything) and it go right to Windows.
is there another arquitecture I should try? (like amd64 (but my CPU is not 64))
should I go to loader prompt and make some commands?
is freeBSD not avaiable for some notebooks (because the drivers, or the brand)?
should I format all the HD and install FreeBSD in the hole disk?
Thank you and sorry my English, I'm from Mexico
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