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Date:      Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:36:09 -0500
From:      Jung-uk Kim <jkim@niksun.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@beta.com>
Subject:   Re: HP AMD64 booting problems...
Message-ID:  <200502281936.09544.jkim@niksun.com>
In-Reply-To: <200502282356.j1SNuvnR084389@spoon.beta.com>
References:  <200502282356.j1SNuvnR084389@spoon.beta.com>

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On Monday 28 February 2005 06:56 pm, Brian J. McGovern wrote:
> I recently picked up an HP5460 AMD64 laptop, and I recently wanted
> to try FreeBSD on it. Unfortunately, both the x86 and AMD64
> versions will not boot, actually shutting the power down shortly
> after the kernel finishes loading. I've tried 5.3 and 4.8 with
> similar results, also cycling through disabling ACPI, "safe mode",
> and going to the boot loader prompt and manually turning off
> whatever I can think of.
>
> Does anyone have any additional suggestions (either to boot it, or
> provide diagnostics), or will I be trapped to run Windows on this
> rather powerful machine? :)

It's infamous Compaq/HP laptop problem.

http://blackk.union.edu/~black/freebsd/

FYI, all the necessary fixes are integrated in 5-STABLE now.

Jung-uk Kim

> 	-Brian



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