fresh install - compaq laptop locks up on boot after timecounter TSC
This is why no one ever got fired for buying an IBM as the old adage goes. My ancient Dell laptop had absolutely no install issues, so I bought a fresh disk for my shiny new compaq: Behavior is identical off of 6.1-current cd or install to ad0 that was completed from cd safemode boot. She runs fine in safemode from acd0 or ad0. Regular startup - see vga0 go by sucessfully, then timcounter TSC... ticks at 1 milliseconds then locks up tight. I tried disabling the line after vga0 in boot/device.hints, but those of you who know what that is know, I'm sure, that that turns my system into a peperweight. I also tried boot with acpi disabled, but that seems to lock up identically on tsc. Wish I had more info, but that's all I can glean without more help. Had to put the origonal harddisk with winXP back in. No one wants that ;) Save me! Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fresh install - compaq laptop locks up on boot after timecounter TSC
Steve Franks wrote: This is why no one ever got fired for buying an IBM as the old adage goes. My ancient Dell laptop had absolutely no install issues, so I bought a fresh disk for my shiny new compaq: Behavior is identical off of 6.1-current cd or install to ad0 that was completed from cd safemode boot. She runs fine in safemode from acd0 or ad0. Regular startup - see vga0 go by sucessfully, then timcounter TSC... ticks at 1 milliseconds then locks up tight. I tried disabling the line after vga0 in boot/device.hints, but those of you who know what that is know, I'm sure, that that turns my system into a peperweight. I also tried boot with acpi disabled, but that seems to lock up identically on tsc. Wish I had more info, but that's all I can glean without more help. Had to put the origonal harddisk with winXP back in. No one wants that ;) Save me! Steve Sounds similar to the problem my Compaq has/had. I found that the following advice, posted to questions@ some time ago, worked for me: Interrupt the kernel loading process, then: set hint.sio.0.disabled=1 set hint.sio.1.disabled=1 set hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x9 HTH, Micah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fresh install - compaq laptop locks up on boot after timecounter TSC
Thanks for that. Unfortunately, no change, but I'm going to start combing device.hints for any devices my laptop doesn't have, and turn them all off, maybe I'll get lucky. Looks like I can install amd64 on it, but I don't think the currently-running i386 6.1 release is the problem, you'd think if the processor type was the issue it wouldn't run at all. Steve On 1/6/07, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Franks wrote: This is why no one ever got fired for buying an IBM as the old adage goes. My ancient Dell laptop had absolutely no install issues, so I bought a fresh disk for my shiny new compaq: Behavior is identical off of 6.1-current cd or install to ad0 that was completed from cd safemode boot. She runs fine in safemode from acd0 or ad0. Regular startup - see vga0 go by sucessfully, then timcounter TSC... ticks at 1 milliseconds then locks up tight. I tried disabling the line after vga0 in boot/device.hints, but those of you who know what that is know, I'm sure, that that turns my system into a peperweight. I also tried boot with acpi disabled, but that seems to lock up identically on tsc. Wish I had more info, but that's all I can glean without more help. Had to put the origonal harddisk with winXP back in. No one wants that ;) Save me! Steve Sounds similar to the problem my Compaq has/had. I found that the following advice, posted to questions@ some time ago, worked for me: Interrupt the kernel loading process, then: set hint.sio.0.disabled=1 set hint.sio.1.disabled=1 set hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x9 HTH, Micah -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fresh install - compaq laptop locks up on boot after timecounter TSC
Correction: that may have been the issue: I removed the fdc fd, and realized I had disabled sio0, not sio.0so for the future, it's that or the floppy. I don't intend to re-enable the floppy, as I don't have one anyway, so thanks for the leg-up! Steve On 1/6/07, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for that. Unfortunately, no change, but I'm going to start combing device.hints for any devices my laptop doesn't have, and turn them all off, maybe I'll get lucky. Looks like I can install amd64 on it, but I don't think the currently-running i386 6.1 release is the problem, you'd think if the processor type was the issue it wouldn't run at all. Steve On 1/6/07, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Franks wrote: This is why no one ever got fired for buying an IBM as the old adage goes. My ancient Dell laptop had absolutely no install issues, so I bought a fresh disk for my shiny new compaq: Behavior is identical off of 6.1-current cd or install to ad0 that was completed from cd safemode boot. She runs fine in safemode from acd0 or ad0. Regular startup - see vga0 go by sucessfully, then timcounter TSC... ticks at 1 milliseconds then locks up tight. I tried disabling the line after vga0 in boot/device.hints, but those of you who know what that is know, I'm sure, that that turns my system into a peperweight. I also tried boot with acpi disabled, but that seems to lock up identically on tsc. Wish I had more info, but that's all I can glean without more help. Had to put the origonal harddisk with winXP back in. No one wants that ;) Save me! Steve Sounds similar to the problem my Compaq has/had. I found that the following advice, posted to questions@ some time ago, worked for me: Interrupt the kernel loading process, then: set hint.sio.0.disabled=1 set hint.sio.1.disabled=1 set hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x9 HTH, Micah -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
