Re: FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop

2010-03-20 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
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 wher

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop

2010-03-19 Thread Richard DeLaurell
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 wrote: > On Fri, M

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop

2010-03-19 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Richard DeLaurell wrote: >>On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan >>wrote: >>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

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop

2010-03-19 Thread Richard DeLaurell
>On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan >wrote: >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

FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop

2010-03-19 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
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 co

FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop

2010-03-12 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
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 co