Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:28:10 -0500 From: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> To: Richard Vanderbilt <vanderbiltr@fdleweb.orl.saic.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot/Installation problem on emachines M6805 Laptop Message-ID: <20041103202810.GB48022@chaos.fxp.org> In-Reply-To: <000b01c4c1d7$e7d28740$ecd61a0a@orl.saic.com> References: <000b01c4c1d7$e7d28740$ecd61a0a@orl.saic.com>
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:04:11PM -0500, Richard Vanderbilt wrote: > I have tried to install 5.2.1 / 5.3 Beta 7, RC1 versions onto my Laptop > system from a CD of the amd64 distribution (boot only CD iso image from ftp > site). The boot loader program starts up with the options to boot, but when > you select the default (1) it stops without any error messages displayed. > The laptop is an Emachines M6805 with mobile amd64 processor, I am not sure > which chipset it contains. > > Is there anything that I can do, or that I may be doing wrong, to get the > amd64 distribution to boot on my laptop. > My M6805 works quite well in 64-bit mode after updating the bios: http://www.rmecc.com/~v2/em/index.html -- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org
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