On Monday 28 February 2005 06:56 pm, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > I recently picked up an HP5460 AMD64 laptop, and I recently wanted > to try FreeBSD on it. Unfortunately, both the x86 and AMD64 > versions will not boot, actually shutting the power down shortly > after the kernel finishes loading. I've tried 5.3 and 4.8 with > similar results, also cycling through disabling ACPI, "safe mode", > and going to the boot loader prompt and manually turning off > whatever I can think of. > > Does anyone have any additional suggestions (either to boot it, or > provide diagnostics), or will I be trapped to run Windows on this > rather powerful machine? :)
It's infamous Compaq/HP laptop problem. http://blackk.union.edu/~black/freebsd/ FYI, all the necessary fixes are integrated in 5-STABLE now. Jung-uk Kim > -Brian _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
