RE: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derrick Ryalls Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 6:35 PM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD On 12/22/05, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derrick Ryalls Greetings, I recently purchased an HP Pavillion laptop (dv8000) that has an AMD-64 CPU, with the intent on running FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) as a dual boot option. I have installed BSD numerous times on various desktops, but this is my first attempt on a laptop. When I boot off the CD, before the boot menu comes up, an error message comes up: elf32_lookup_symbol: corrupt symbol table. Then the normal boot menu comes up, at which point selecting option 1 (normal) or option 2 (without ACPI) causes the BTX loader to halt after displaying some hex errors. I even tried hitting option 6, unsettng acpi_load, then booting, but the same error comes up. I tried 6.0 AMD-64 and didn't get as far. Before the boot menu could come up, it continually spews what appears to be the same/similar hex errors and didn't even respond to Cntrl-Alt-Delete. Trying 5.4, I don't get the elf32 error before the boot menu, but if I select option 1 it has trouble loading ACPI and then shuts down. Selecting option 2 (with the 5.4 cd) does not bring up an error, the system just shuts down. Out of curiousity, I tried a Knoppix 4.0 CD and was able to fully boot and get a functioning system up (albeit running off the CD). My bios has painfully few options, such as boot order and disabling the onboard wireless nic, nothing else. Is there something else I should try, or do I have to wait for the time being? TIA for any suggestions. -Derrick On 12/21/05, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: boot off floppies and try a ftp install. Or, boot windows and burn the freebsd cd in the laptop (i assume the laptop has a cd burner) sounds like a media error. Ted I don't have a floppy drive to use, but in any case I used 3 different FreeBSD CDs, all failed. One of the CDs I had previously used to install on a desktop, so I doubt it is a media issue. Try booting a 4.11 CD, I have systems which will boot 4.11 fine but will not boot 5.4 or later. If an install works on that, I would send-pr the bug. Also, make sure to firmware/bios update the laptop. Ted I tried 4.11 and got the hex errors even quicker, no chance to interrupt boot sequence. There isn't a bios update available for it either. Assuming you've double checked the BIOS version and tried burning the install CDs on that CDROM drive, I'd try actually installing various OS's. Try FreeDOS, any version of Linux, another copy of Windows. Try first various bootable CDs (games, diagnostics, etc.) as they are quick tests. If all can install, then send-pr. If you get errors on another OS or bootable CD, then suspect the CDROM drive. In the meantime, you might buy yourself a USB floppy drive (handy in any case, especially if/when you need to update the BIOS) and see if you can boot from that. The HP support desk will help you diagnose the CDROM drive and with booting from a USB floppy drive. Good luck, -gayn Bristol Systems Inc. 714/532-6776 www.bristolsystems.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derrick Ryalls Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:26 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derrick Ryalls Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:02 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD Greetings, I recently purchased an HP Pavillion laptop (dv8000) that has an AMD-64 CPU, with the intent on running FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) as a dual boot option. I have installed BSD numerous times on various desktops, but this is my first attempt on a laptop. When I boot off the CD, before the boot menu comes up, an error message comes up: elf32_lookup_symbol: corrupt symbol table. Then the normal boot menu comes up, at which point selecting option 1 (normal) or option 2 (without ACPI) causes the BTX loader to halt after displaying some hex errors. I even tried hitting option 6, unsettng acpi_load, then booting, but the same error comes up. I tried 6.0 AMD-64 and didn't get as far. Before the boot menu could come up, it continually spews what appears to be the same/similar hex errors and didn't even respond to Cntrl-Alt-Delete. Trying 5.4, I don't get the elf32 error before the boot menu, but if I select option 1 it has trouble loading ACPI and then shuts down. Selecting option 2 (with the 5.4 cd) does not bring up an error, the system just shuts down. Out of curiousity, I tried a Knoppix 4.0 CD and was able to fully boot and get a functioning system up (albeit running off the CD). My bios has painfully few options, such as boot order and disabling the onboard wireless nic, nothing else. Is there something else I should try, or do I have to wait for the time being? TIA for any suggestions. -Derrick On 12/21/05, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: boot off floppies and try a ftp install. Or, boot windows and burn the freebsd cd in the laptop (i assume the laptop has a cd burner) sounds like a media error. Ted I don't have a floppy drive to use, but in any case I used 3 different FreeBSD CDs, all failed. One of the CDs I had previously used to install on a desktop, so I doubt it is a media issue. Try booting a 4.11 CD, I have systems which will boot 4.11 fine but will not boot 5.4 or later. If an install works on that, I would send-pr the bug. Also, make sure to firmware/bios update the laptop. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD
On 12/22/05, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derrick Ryalls Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:26 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derrick Ryalls Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:02 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD Greetings, I recently purchased an HP Pavillion laptop (dv8000) that has an AMD-64 CPU, with the intent on running FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) as a dual boot option. I have installed BSD numerous times on various desktops, but this is my first attempt on a laptop. When I boot off the CD, before the boot menu comes up, an error message comes up: elf32_lookup_symbol: corrupt symbol table. Then the normal boot menu comes up, at which point selecting option 1 (normal) or option 2 (without ACPI) causes the BTX loader to halt after displaying some hex errors. I even tried hitting option 6, unsettng acpi_load, then booting, but the same error comes up. I tried 6.0 AMD-64 and didn't get as far. Before the boot menu could come up, it continually spews what appears to be the same/similar hex errors and didn't even respond to Cntrl-Alt-Delete. Trying 5.4, I don't get the elf32 error before the boot menu, but if I select option 1 it has trouble loading ACPI and then shuts down. Selecting option 2 (with the 5.4 cd) does not bring up an error, the system just shuts down. Out of curiousity, I tried a Knoppix 4.0 CD and was able to fully boot and get a functioning system up (albeit running off the CD). My bios has painfully few options, such as boot order and disabling the onboard wireless nic, nothing else. Is there something else I should try, or do I have to wait for the time being? TIA for any suggestions. -Derrick On 12/21/05, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: boot off floppies and try a ftp install. Or, boot windows and burn the freebsd cd in the laptop (i assume the laptop has a cd burner) sounds like a media error. Ted I don't have a floppy drive to use, but in any case I used 3 different FreeBSD CDs, all failed. One of the CDs I had previously used to install on a desktop, so I doubt it is a media issue. Try booting a 4.11 CD, I have systems which will boot 4.11 fine but will not boot 5.4 or later. If an install works on that, I would send-pr the bug. Also, make sure to firmware/bios update the laptop. Ted I tried 4.11 and got the hex errors even quicker, no chance to interrupt boot sequence. There isn't a bios update available for it either. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD
Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently purchased an HP Pavillion laptop (dv8000) that has an AMD-64 CPU, with the intent on running FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) as a dual boot option. I have installed BSD numerous times on various desktops, but this is my first attempt on a laptop. When I boot off the CD, before the boot menu comes up, an error message comes up: elf32_lookup_symbol: corrupt symbol table. Then the normal boot menu comes up, at which point selecting option 1 (normal) or option 2 (without ACPI) causes the BTX loader to halt after displaying some hex errors. I even tried hitting option 6, unsettng acpi_load, then booting, but the same error comes up. I tried 6.0 AMD-64 and didn't get as far. Before the boot menu could come up, it continually spews what appears to be the same/similar hex errors and didn't even respond to Cntrl-Alt-Delete. Trying 5.4, I don't get the elf32 error before the boot menu, but if I select option 1 it has trouble loading ACPI and then shuts down. Selecting option 2 (with the 5.4 cd) does not bring up an error, the system just shuts down. Out of curiousity, I tried a Knoppix 4.0 CD and was able to fully boot and get a functioning system up (albeit running off the CD). My bios has painfully few options, such as boot order and disabling the onboard wireless nic, nothing else. Is there something else I should try, or do I have to wait for the time being? What happens when you boot in safe mode? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD
boot off floppies and try a ftp install. Or, boot windows and burn the freebsd cd in the laptop (i assume the laptop has a cd burner) sounds like a media error. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derrick Ryalls Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:02 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD Greetings, I recently purchased an HP Pavillion laptop (dv8000) that has an AMD-64 CPU, with the intent on running FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) as a dual boot option. I have installed BSD numerous times on various desktops, but this is my first attempt on a laptop. When I boot off the CD, before the boot menu comes up, an error message comes up: elf32_lookup_symbol: corrupt symbol table. Then the normal boot menu comes up, at which point selecting option 1 (normal) or option 2 (without ACPI) causes the BTX loader to halt after displaying some hex errors. I even tried hitting option 6, unsettng acpi_load, then booting, but the same error comes up. I tried 6.0 AMD-64 and didn't get as far. Before the boot menu could come up, it continually spews what appears to be the same/similar hex errors and didn't even respond to Cntrl-Alt-Delete. Trying 5.4, I don't get the elf32 error before the boot menu, but if I select option 1 it has trouble loading ACPI and then shuts down. Selecting option 2 (with the 5.4 cd) does not bring up an error, the system just shuts down. Out of curiousity, I tried a Knoppix 4.0 CD and was able to fully boot and get a functioning system up (albeit running off the CD). My bios has painfully few options, such as boot order and disabling the onboard wireless nic, nothing else. Is there something else I should try, or do I have to wait for the time being? TIA for any suggestions. -Derrick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.1/207 - Release Date: 12/19/2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD
On 21 Dec 2005 12:01:22 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently purchased an HP Pavillion laptop (dv8000) that has an AMD-64 CPU, with the intent on running FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) as a dual boot option. I have installed BSD numerous times on various desktops, but this is my first attempt on a laptop. When I boot off the CD, before the boot menu comes up, an error message comes up: elf32_lookup_symbol: corrupt symbol table. Then the normal boot menu comes up, at which point selecting option 1 (normal) or option 2 (without ACPI) causes the BTX loader to halt after displaying some hex errors. I even tried hitting option 6, unsettng acpi_load, then booting, but the same error comes up. I tried 6.0 AMD-64 and didn't get as far. Before the boot menu could come up, it continually spews what appears to be the same/similar hex errors and didn't even respond to Cntrl-Alt-Delete. Trying 5.4, I don't get the elf32 error before the boot menu, but if I select option 1 it has trouble loading ACPI and then shuts down. Selecting option 2 (with the 5.4 cd) does not bring up an error, the system just shuts down. Out of curiousity, I tried a Knoppix 4.0 CD and was able to fully boot and get a functioning system up (albeit running off the CD). My bios has painfully few options, such as boot order and disabling the onboard wireless nic, nothing else. Is there something else I should try, or do I have to wait for the time being? What happens when you boot in safe mode? I think I got the same error, but I will double check in a couple hours when I get home and can try again. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derrick Ryalls Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:02 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD Greetings, I recently purchased an HP Pavillion laptop (dv8000) that has an AMD-64 CPU, with the intent on running FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) as a dual boot option. I have installed BSD numerous times on various desktops, but this is my first attempt on a laptop. When I boot off the CD, before the boot menu comes up, an error message comes up: elf32_lookup_symbol: corrupt symbol table. Then the normal boot menu comes up, at which point selecting option 1 (normal) or option 2 (without ACPI) causes the BTX loader to halt after displaying some hex errors. I even tried hitting option 6, unsettng acpi_load, then booting, but the same error comes up. I tried 6.0 AMD-64 and didn't get as far. Before the boot menu could come up, it continually spews what appears to be the same/similar hex errors and didn't even respond to Cntrl-Alt-Delete. Trying 5.4, I don't get the elf32 error before the boot menu, but if I select option 1 it has trouble loading ACPI and then shuts down. Selecting option 2 (with the 5.4 cd) does not bring up an error, the system just shuts down. Out of curiousity, I tried a Knoppix 4.0 CD and was able to fully boot and get a functioning system up (albeit running off the CD). My bios has painfully few options, such as boot order and disabling the onboard wireless nic, nothing else. Is there something else I should try, or do I have to wait for the time being? TIA for any suggestions. -Derrick On 12/21/05, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: boot off floppies and try a ftp install. Or, boot windows and burn the freebsd cd in the laptop (i assume the laptop has a cd burner) sounds like a media error. Ted I don't have a floppy drive to use, but in any case I used 3 different FreeBSD CDs, all failed. One of the CDs I had previously used to install on a desktop, so I doubt it is a media issue. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD
On 12/21/05, Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derrick Ryalls Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:02 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: HP Pavillion laptop can't boot FreeBSD Greetings, I recently purchased an HP Pavillion laptop (dv8000) that has an AMD-64 CPU, with the intent on running FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) as a dual boot option. I have installed BSD numerous times on various desktops, but this is my first attempt on a laptop. When I boot off the CD, before the boot menu comes up, an error message comes up: elf32_lookup_symbol: corrupt symbol table. Then the normal boot menu comes up, at which point selecting option 1 (normal) or option 2 (without ACPI) causes the BTX loader to halt after displaying some hex errors. I even tried hitting option 6, unsettng acpi_load, then booting, but the same error comes up. I tried 6.0 AMD-64 and didn't get as far. Before the boot menu could come up, it continually spews what appears to be the same/similar hex errors and didn't even respond to Cntrl-Alt-Delete. Trying 5.4, I don't get the elf32 error before the boot menu, but if I select option 1 it has trouble loading ACPI and then shuts down. Selecting option 2 (with the 5.4 cd) does not bring up an error, the system just shuts down. Out of curiousity, I tried a Knoppix 4.0 CD and was able to fully boot and get a functioning system up (albeit running off the CD). My bios has painfully few options, such as boot order and disabling the onboard wireless nic, nothing else. Is there something else I should try, or do I have to wait for the time being? TIA for any suggestions. -Derrick On 12/21/05, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: boot off floppies and try a ftp install. Or, boot windows and burn the freebsd cd in the laptop (i assume the laptop has a cd burner) sounds like a media error. Ted I don't have a floppy drive to use, but in any case I used 3 different FreeBSD CDs, all failed. One of the CDs I had previously used to install on a desktop, so I doubt it is a media issue. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What you are getting is a keyboard lock error; I've got a Compaq Presario M2000 with an AMD Sepron processor, and no matter what FreeBSD distro or version I use, after 4.9, my install would always lock up. I've posted a thread on this issue to the message board, and a few gentlemen replied and had a solution for this; you must get into single-user mode, and set a few sysctls to bypass the keyboard and serial port confusion. Interrupt the kernel loading process, then: set hint.sio.0.disabled=1 set hint.sio.1.disabled=1 set hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x9 And continue booting...This was my help from Ariff Abdullah and Nathan Vidican I tried the above set of commands (after hitting option 6 on the boot menu - escape to loader prompt) including unsetting acpi, then typing boot and the same error came up. I am unable to boot to single user mode directly as the above post suggest, not does safe mode work. I did notice one difference though. If I cold boot the laptop, in place of the elf32 error message, the system hangs. If I first boot into windows then reboot to install CD, I get the elf32 error and the option to choose my boot. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
