Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-20 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello everyone, I booted with acpi disabled, it worked. BUT I checked with HP, they had bios upgrdae, I upgraded my bios and guess what?? It boots normal, and works fine, i donot need to do any additional configuration,the acpi is supported and the tempreture message has gone after bios

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
Marwan Sultan wrote: Well, i have HP laptop dv5178us model. i installed freebsd 6.1, after installation is complete, it will ask you to remove any cd and reboot till here is fine after i reboot, it hangs!! nothing happens! nothing moves!! just blank black dead screen!! I installed fbsd

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-19 Thread Marwan Sultan
hello, Well, I did what im doing since 7 years on desktops! just inserted the cd, startedup the laptop and asked for installation, then the normal procedures, you know? partitioning..etc.. when the installation done, i removed the cd and restarted, but the laptop freeze..on a black screen,

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
Marwan Sultan wrote: Well, I did what im doing since 7 years on desktops! just inserted the cd, startedup the laptop and asked for installation, then the normal procedures, you know? partitioning..etc.. when the installation done, i removed the cd and restarted, but the laptop freeze..on a

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-19 Thread Robert C Wittig
Marwan Sultan wrote: hello, Well, I did what im doing since 7 years on desktops! just inserted the cd, startedup the laptop and asked for installation, then the normal procedures, you know? partitioning..etc.. when the installation done, i removed the cd and restarted, but the laptop

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-19 Thread Derek Ragona
Check your BIOS that you don't have protection of the boot block enabled. If you do, remove that protection and reinstall. Some laptops can get stuck, and you have to pull the battery and AC power then restore the AC power to get them to restart. -Derek At 05:35 PM 7/18/2006,

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-19 Thread Marwan Sultan
hey guys! thanks for all of you, it was the fbsd boot loader, as eric suggested. now its booting, BUT :( during booting it givis the following error Warning: System tempreture too high shutting down soon! acpi_tz1: Warning current tempreture (0.0c) exceeds safe limits and it shuts down

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-19 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Marwan Sultan wrote: hey guys! thanks for all of you, it was the fbsd boot loader, as eric suggested. now its booting, BUT :( during booting it givis the following error Warning: System tempreture too high shutting down soon! acpi_tz1: Warning current tempreture (0.0c) exceeds safe

fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-18 Thread Marwan Sultan
Well, i have HP laptop dv5178us model. i installed freebsd 6.1, after installation is complete, it will ask you to remove any cd and reboot till here is fine after i reboot, it hangs!! nothing happens! nothing moves!! just blank black dead screen!! I installed fbsd again, and the