I recently purchased a HP Pavilion dv8135nr Laptop. The strange problem I had was that when the boot loader would load it would crash if I didn't touch any key on the keyboard.
The last thing I saw, before it crashed was it reading the /boot/loader.conf off the CD. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to read the crash, as the screen at that point was unreadable. I suspect that the point in which it crashed was when it was loading the kernel, but before it displayed the message that it was loading /boot/kernel/kernel. This problem occured with both the FreeBSD/AMD64 boot-only and disc1 install CD-ROMs. Thinking that I may need to disable something with acpi, I tried to break into the boot loader by pressing the space bar repeatedly. But it wouldn't break into the boot loader, instead it loaded the kernel and I was able to install FreeBSD/AMD64 6.1-Beta 4. Once I had FreeBSD/AMD64 6.1-Beta 4 installed, I was able to repeatedly boot the system from the Hard Drive without the boot loader crashing. Anyone else have a problem with the AMD64 install CDs? Scot -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
