I don't know if it is the same problem (it certainly sounds similar). This is not a laptop though. Nor is it an old machine (less than 3 years old).
Anyway, I have booted DragonFly from the live CD and logged in as root. But what device name do I use (I only have one disk)? Everything I guessed at, it says "device not configured". 2009/4/17 Michael Neumann <[email protected]>: > Colin Adams wrote: > >> I was able to install DragonFly on the disk all-right, but the >> machine still won't boot if the drive is powered-on at boot time. > > I remember that I had a similar problem about 2 years ago with my Bullman > laptop. > > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2007-02/msg00158.html > > If yours is the same problem (can you confirm?) then "fdisk -C" will solve > it. But as the installer does not provide an option to set the "-C" flag, > you'd have to install DragonFly without the installer. > > Regards, > > Michael > > >
