Re: FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop
richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote: Are you able to get to the FreeBSD splash screen (where you get a countdown to startup with a menu of 6 selections)? Yes, It doesn't go beyond that selection most of the time. One of the choices there is boot w/o ACPI; you could try that if you get that far. That is exactly where I am, at that screen when I make the selection (any selection) it just pauses for about 30 Secs before the computer shuts down. Tried all options including 'set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1' followed by 'boot' at the loader prompt. Its more or less 1 successful boot in 7 attempts, totally random, not dependent on w/o ACPI is picked or not, sometimes it just works with verbose logging or normal boot. It is definitely something to do with the RESET BIOS timer (If at all there is anything like that) expiring before FreeBSD kernel can fully load or something... Thank you HP ! -Anoop Good luck-- Richard On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Richard DeLaurell richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.comwrote: I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed). Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses for about 15 secs and the computer suddenly powers down. I was able to boot into the system occasionally lets say about 1 in 5 boots. I am able to install and boot into Linux without any problem. So then you are attempting to startup using a power adaptor (i.e. your computer is plugged in to a wall socket)? Yes. I don't know if its a specific Athlon XP related problem as I did observe a similar post some years ago. And, Apparently its the same thing. http://osdir.com/ml/os.freebsd.devel.hardware/2004-10/msg00044.html In this case its the installation. In my case its after the installation. I had the reverse problem a while ago with Slackware shutting down in the middle of installation onto a Toshiba laptop while FreeBSD has always been no problem. My guess is that these issues reflect power management settings, perhaps even something in the bios. Maybe its something in the BIOS, but the thing is that Linux boots fine on the machine. Maybe some driver is crashing and is causing a reboot of the machine. Are there any critical drivers in the system that can result in such a problem. Does this occur when you use the installation or boot-only disks? I can install it just fine, but can't seem to to boot into the installed version (Once its been installed). I did create the FreeBSD swap partition before the root file-system (and it still seems to label the root file-system as 'a'), Would this affect the system boot up in anyway ? Sorry this is not more help to you. Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop
I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed). Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses for about 15 secs and the computer suddenly powers down. I was able to boot into the system occasionally lets say about 1 in 5 boots. I am able to install and boot into Linux without any problem. On successful boot, I did see a message battery0: battery initialization failed 1. Is there any way to increase the amount of debug messages printed on the screen to figure out what's happening ? 2. Has it got to do with some module crashing as, I am able to install and run LINUX without any problem ? 3. Why is there a pause of 15 secs after making the selection ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.comwrote: I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed). Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses for about 15 secs and the computer suddenly powers down. I was able to boot into the system occasionally lets say about 1 in 5 boots. I am able to install and boot into Linux without any problem. So then you are attempting to startup using a power adaptor (i.e. your computer is plugged in to a wall socket)? I had the reverse problem a while ago with Slackware shutting down in the middle of installation onto a Toshiba laptop while FreeBSD has always been no problem. My guess is that these issues reflect power management settings, perhaps even something in the bios. Does this occur when you use the installation or boot-only disks? Sorry this is not more help to you. Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Richard DeLaurell richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.comwrote: I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed). Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses for about 15 secs and the computer suddenly powers down. I was able to boot into the system occasionally lets say about 1 in 5 boots. I am able to install and boot into Linux without any problem. So then you are attempting to startup using a power adaptor (i.e. your computer is plugged in to a wall socket)? Yes. I don't know if its a specific Athlon XP related problem as I did observe a similar post some years ago. And, Apparently its the same thing. http://osdir.com/ml/os.freebsd.devel.hardware/2004-10/msg00044.html In this case its the installation. In my case its after the installation. I had the reverse problem a while ago with Slackware shutting down in the middle of installation onto a Toshiba laptop while FreeBSD has always been no problem. My guess is that these issues reflect power management settings, perhaps even something in the bios. Maybe its something in the BIOS, but the thing is that Linux boots fine on the machine. Maybe some driver is crashing and is causing a reboot of the machine. Are there any critical drivers in the system that can result in such a problem. Does this occur when you use the installation or boot-only disks? I can install it just fine, but can't seem to to boot into the installed version (Once its been installed). I did create the FreeBSD swap partition before the root file-system (and it still seems to label the root file-system as 'a'), Would this affect the system boot up in anyway ? Sorry this is not more help to you. Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop
Are you able to get to the FreeBSD splash screen (where you get a countdown to startup with a menu of 6 selections)? One of the choices there is boot w/o ACPI; you could try that if you get that far. Good luck-- Richard On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Richard DeLaurell richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop.kn@ gmail.comwrote: I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed). Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses for about 15 secs and the computer suddenly powers down. I was able to boot into the system occasionally lets say about 1 in 5 boots. I am able to install and boot into Linux without any problem. So then you are attempting to startup using a power adaptor (i.e. your computer is plugged in to a wall socket)? Yes. I don't know if its a specific Athlon XP related problem as I did observe a similar post some years ago. And, Apparently its the same thing. http://osdir.com/ml/os.freebsd.devel.hardware/2004-10/msg00044.html In this case its the installation. In my case its after the installation. I had the reverse problem a while ago with Slackware shutting down in the middle of installation onto a Toshiba laptop while FreeBSD has always been no problem. My guess is that these issues reflect power management settings, perhaps even something in the bios. Maybe its something in the BIOS, but the thing is that Linux boots fine on the machine. Maybe some driver is crashing and is causing a reboot of the machine. Are there any critical drivers in the system that can result in such a problem. Does this occur when you use the installation or boot-only disks? I can install it just fine, but can't seem to to boot into the installed version (Once its been installed). I did create the FreeBSD swap partition before the root file-system (and it still seems to label the root file-system as 'a'), Would this affect the system boot up in anyway ? Sorry this is not more help to you. Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop
I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed). Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses for about 15 secs and the computer suddenly powers down. I was able to boot into the system occasionally lets say about 1 in 5 boots. I am able to install and boot into Linux without any problem. On successful boot, I did see a message battery0: battery initialization failed 1. Is there any way to increase the amount of debug messages printed on the screen to figure out what's happening ? 2. Has it got to do with some module crashing as, I am able to install and run LINUX without any problem ? 3. Why is there a pause of 15 secs after making the selection ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
