From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 07:32:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 904CE16A4CE; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:32:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4246943D4C; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:32:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsdnooby@optonline.net) Received: from [192.168.0.26] (ool-43532b7b.dyn.optonline.net [67.83.43.123]) by mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IBX00J6LZMJMB@mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:32:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.0.300 [265.8.7]); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:32:36 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:32:35 -0500 From: bsdnooby To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <4211A593.5010509@optonline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) Subject: All your laptops are belong to Windows. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:32:46 -0000 I'm defeated. The FreeBSD install gives no hints as to why it turns off my laptop. When I try to install FreeBSD, my brand new I'm blue.HP Pavilion laptop turns itself off. It does not matter if I use 4.x or 5.x, CD or floppies. There is no error log since it just shuts off after I choose to load a kernel. I have tried loading with ACPI off, and it does not help. I believe I tried all the kernel options available from the menu on 5.x. The computer is a HP Pavilion zv5445us, with 512MB RAM, P4-3Ghz, 100GB HD, 15.4" Hi-Def Screen, 54G 802.11b WLAN. I purchased it from Best Buy. Under Windows, it appears Hyper-Threading is turned on, and I have not found a way to turn it off inside the CMOS. The machine runs Windows XP Pro fine, but I am trying to switch to FreeBSD on all my boxen. I was really surprised to find this one abruptly shutdown when trying to do the install. It turns off before the install really starts, so I do not have much information to solve this problem. The HD is never touched. I'm blue. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.7 - Release Date: 2/10/2005