Re: Installing Dragonfly 1.8 hangs BIOS completly

2007-02-20 Thread Michael Neumann
Rauf Kuliyev wrote: Hi, I bet it is IBM ThinkPad. You can find additional information here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#BOOT-ON-THINKPAD No it isn't a ThinkPad, it's a Bullman (noname), similar to an Acer. FreeBSD runs without change to the bootblock.

Re: Installing Dragonfly 1.8 hangs BIOS completly

2007-02-20 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Michael Neumann wrote: I don't know about the issues involved with different disk geometries, but as this is the only difference I see between DragonFly 1.4 and 1.8, maybe this might be a problem? Possibly not. Try using fdisk with -C. Your BIOS might stumble upon these values. cheers

Re: Installing Dragonfly 1.8 hangs BIOS completly

2007-02-20 Thread Michael Neumann
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Michael Neumann wrote: I don't know about the issues involved with different disk geometries, but as this is the only difference I see between DragonFly 1.4 and 1.8, maybe this might be a problem? Possibly not. Try using fdisk with -C. Your BIOS might

Installing Dragonfly 1.8 hangs BIOS completly

2007-02-19 Thread Michael Neumann
Hi, Just a few minutes ago, I installed Dragonfly 1.8 onto my laptop. Then I rebooted, and the BIOS hung up completely after showing that it detected the harddisk and cdrom. I powered down and tried again, but that didn't worked either. I couldn't even boot a CD or anything else or couldn't

Re: Installing Dragonfly 1.8 hangs BIOS completly

2007-02-19 Thread Rauf Kuliyev
Hi, I bet it is IBM ThinkPad. You can find additional information here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#BOOT-ON-THINKPAD Regards, Rauf On 2/19/07, Michael Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just a few minutes ago, I installed Dragonfly 1.8 onto my laptop.

Re: Installing Dragonfly 1.8 hangs BIOS completly

2007-02-19 Thread Bill Hacker
Michael Neumann wrote: Hi, Just a few minutes ago, I installed Dragonfly 1.8 onto my laptop. Then I rebooted, and the BIOS hung up completely after showing that it detected the harddisk and cdrom. I powered down and tried again, but that didn't worked either. I couldn't even boot a CD or