Nate Lawson writes:
No way! Good (non-386) equipment is never to old. :)
Please add debug.acpi.disable=cpu to loader.conf or type that in at the
loader prompt. If it boots ok, we'll have to debug the acpi_cpu_startup
path.
Speaking of which, I have a Good (see above...) motherboard
George Hartzell writes:
I've been trying to install something 5-ish on a Sony PCG-GRX570
laptop.
I started off trying to boot off of the 5.1 release CD, normally,
w/out acpi, and safe. Every option panic-ed, with essentially the
same message (see below), although it followed
I've been trying to install something 5-ish on a Sony PCG-GRX570
laptop.
I started off trying to boot off of the 5.1 release CD, normally,
w/out acpi, and safe. Every option panic-ed, with essentially the
same message (see below), although it followed a different driver
depending on how it was
Andrew Boothman writes:
[...]
OK Guys, I think I'm still a little confused here.
I've just had a few botched installs of GRUB so I think I need a little more
direction, if you could :)
I've got GRUB on a floppy and it boots fine. If I type :
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
George Hartzell writes:
[...]
grub setup (hd0)
Here you boot process would be
power on-bios-load the MBR which is really GRUB-grub loads its stage1,...
Or you could leave a normal MBR at the beginning of the disk and
install GRUB into the beginning of the FreeBSD BIOS
Andrew Boothman writes:
[...]
It's possible I guess that we both suffered from the same problem. I'd
be inclined to think that it must be operator error over something wrong
with sysinstall since I've not seen people complaining of these problems
before, yet there must be loads of
Darryl Okahata writes:
[...]
I installed 5.0 with the booteasy MBR on my IBM laptop, and it
worked fine. The problem I had was that *ANY* MBR-based boot program
interfered with IBM's special product recovery software, and so I
instead decided to just use Win2K/XP's boot mechanism
Darryl Okahata writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Hartzell) wrote:
Only differences are which partition we mark active and what boot
loader lives there.
True, but that's the key point: ... and what boot loader lives
there. There are times when not touching the boot loader
Andrew Boothman writes:
[...]
I didn't really change much about my system when I installed FreeBSD.
Windows is installed on the whole of the first HDD, and FreeBSD on the whole of
the second. Prior to installing 5.0, the second disc had an old installation of
4.6 that I wasn't
