Re: Newbbie Issue (JP) - installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a HP Notebook
On Jul 18, 2011, at 13:43, Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org wrote: This belongs in freebsd-questions unless you have reasonable grounds to believe the problem is ACPI related. On 2011-Jul-15 17:49:17 -0700, Mygamejw mygam...@aol.com wrote: I recently got FreeBSD 8.1 for a present Note that FreeBSD 8.1 has been superceded by FreeBSD 8.2, which is available for download from (eg) ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.2/ Do you know which FreeBSD 8.1 image you have? The issue I am having is related to a possible hacker who has gotten into her system. That's unlikely unless you burnt the CD/DVD on that system and it was corruted by malware on the system. yet. I wanted to ask before I do because of my inexperience with FreeBSD. Any time that I try to boot the pc after pressing #6 option I get a crash notice saying the following at the end of a massive reset notice: Is there a reason you are using option #6 instead of allowing it to boot normally? init: not found in path /sbin/init:/sbin/ d/sysinstall THIS IS CORRECT OUTPUT! I'm not sure if that's what was displayed or you've mis-typed the message but the correct path is: /sbin/init:/sbin/oinit:/sbin/init.bak:/rescue/init:/stand/sysinstall (and it should be loading /stand/sysinstall) I suspect you either have a corrupt CD/DVD image or (possibly) are using the bootonly image instead of one of the installation images. If you have a valid installation image, the screen or so of output prior to that message would help with debugging - you could take a digital photo of the screen and post a link. -- Peter Jeremy Ok, It is FREEBSD 8.2 the March release. Next install I will do a Default bootup and try to install agian. I saw in the manuals that you want to disable the APCI if the system you have uses apm. This is way I choose option 6 Thanks and I will send the snap shots shortly. Jon ___ 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: Newbbie Issue (JP) - installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a HP Notebook
hint.uart.0.flags=0x10 hint.uart.0.irq=4 hint.uart.0.port=0x3F8 Would this be a concern for the BIOS/apm? On Jul 19, 2011, at 2:44, Mygamejw mygam...@aol.com wrote: On Jul 18, 2011, at 13:43, Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org wrote: This belongs in freebsd-questions unless you have reasonable grounds to believe the problem is ACPI related. On 2011-Jul-15 17:49:17 -0700, Mygamejw mygam...@aol.com wrote: I recently got FreeBSD 8.1 for a present Note that FreeBSD 8.1 has been superceded by FreeBSD 8.2, which is available for download from (eg) ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.2/ Do you know which FreeBSD 8.1 image you have? The issue I am having is related to a possible hacker who has gotten into her system. That's unlikely unless you burnt the CD/DVD on that system and it was corruted by malware on the system. yet. I wanted to ask before I do because of my inexperience with FreeBSD. Any time that I try to boot the pc after pressing #6 option I get a crash notice saying the following at the end of a massive reset notice: Is there a reason you are using option #6 instead of allowing it to boot normally? init: not found in path /sbin/init:/sbin/ d/sysinstall THIS IS CORRECT OUTPUT! I'm not sure if that's what was displayed or you've mis-typed the message but the correct path is: /sbin/init:/sbin/oinit:/sbin/init.bak:/rescue/init:/stand/sysinstall (and it should be loading /stand/sysinstall) I suspect you either have a corrupt CD/DVD image or (possibly) are using the bootonly image instead of one of the installation images. If you have a valid installation image, the screen or so of output prior to that message would help with debugging - you could take a digital photo of the screen and post a link. -- Peter Jeremy Ok, It is FREEBSD 8.2 the March release. Next install I will do a Default bootup and try to install agian. I saw in the manuals that you want to disable the APCI if the system you have uses apm. This is way I choose option 6 Thanks and I will send the snap shots shortly. Jon ___ 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: Newbbie Issue (JP) - installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a HP Notebook
On Jul 19, 2011, at 5:10, Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org wrote: On 2011-Jul-19 02:44:13 -0700, Mygamejw mygam...@aol.com wrote: init: not found in path /sbin/init:/sbin/ d/sysinstall THIS IS CORRECT OUTPUT! No need to shout. In that case, your boot media would appear to be corrupt. Sorry about the shout. The boot media? I got the CDs from the BSDMall ? I saw in the manuals that you want to disable the APCI if the system you have uses apm. This is way I choose option 6 ACPI has replaced APM on all modern systems and many modern systems will not boot without ACPI. Unless you have specific requirements, I suggest you stick with the defaults. -- Peter Jeremy ___ 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: Newbbie Issue (JP) - installing FreeBSD 8.1 on a HP Notebook
On 2011-Jul-19 02:44:13 -0700, Mygamejw mygam...@aol.com wrote: init: not found in path /sbin/init:/sbin/ d/sysinstall THIS IS CORRECT OUTPUT! No need to shout. In that case, your boot media would appear to be corrupt. I saw in the manuals that you want to disable the APCI if the system you have uses apm. This is way I choose option 6 ACPI has replaced APM on all modern systems and many modern systems will not boot without ACPI. Unless you have specific requirements, I suggest you stick with the defaults. -- Peter Jeremy pgp1BYOmE2uYz.pgp Description: PGP signature
