Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:54:22 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Niyi Christ <niyichrist@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation Message-ID: <20081120215422.GB38911@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <349426.9663.qm@web110207.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <349426.9663.qm@web110207.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:02:40PM -0800, Niyi Christ wrote: > Hi, > > I've being using FreeBSD ever since 6.0 and I am a very good fan. But I got a new laptop computer, a Sony VAIO VGN-BX760 that has a hidden recovery partition. I've tried all my best to install FreeBSD 7.0 on it but when ever I insert the installation CD and it boots from the cdrom, the kernel does not come up. Instead, I got this bunch of digits just scrolling down my screen indefinitely. The laptop came with a windows XP OS and I am trying to dual boot. I want to use the recovery partition for my FreeBSD. > > I'll appreciate your help as soon as possible. Thanks in anticipation. Hmmm. I was able to clean out two of those once using the fixit CD boot. But, if you can't get it to boot at all, it will be a problem. Did you try to just bot normally, but look at the BIOS on the way up? You may have to set something in the BIOS. I don't know the key combination to hit on a VIO to get in to BIOS, but it should tell somewhere. ////jerry > > Yours, > Niyi > > NiyiChrist > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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