From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 25 12:08:36 2004 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 B37DC16A4CE for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 12:08:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com (webmail-outgoing.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B13843D49 for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 12:08:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fteg@london.com) Received: from wfilter.us4.outblaze.com (wfilter.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.180])B15CE18001AA for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 12:08:36 +0000 (GMT) X-OB-Received: from unknown (205.158.62.178) by wfilter.us4.outblaze.com; 25 Dec 2004 12:08:36 -0000 Received: by cal1-1.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 97F6279008E; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 12:08:36 +0000 (GMT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Received: from [213.187.181.70] by cal1-1.us4.outblaze.com with http for fteg@london.com; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 07:08:36 -0500 From: "Fafa Diliha Romanova" To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 07:08:36 -0500 X-Originating-Ip: 213.187.181.70 X-Originating-Server: cal1-1.us4.outblaze.com Message-Id: <20041225120836.97F6279008E@cal1-1.us4.outblaze.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: MAJOR DISFUNCTION? Compute reboots instead of booting! 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: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 12:08:36 -0000 Dear all of you, My computer (HP Compaq DC7100) refuses to boot to FreeBSD. It enters the= MBR, I then select FreeBSD in the bootloader and the computer reboots! What kind of behavior is thi= s, and why won't it give FreeBSD a chance? I'm aware that some UNIX systems need a patch to work on this type of co= mputer: [1]http://www5.= itrc.hp.com/service/patch/wrap.do?pageKey=3Dpatch.jsp.archiveJump&admi t= =3D552267591+1103976356811+28353475 But in my case, what do I need to do? Disabling ACPI in the BIOS doesn't= work. I'm informed (when I reinsert my S-ATA HD) that if I'm running UNIX, I s= hould enable it in the BIOS. But guess what? There are no such options. Believe me I've looked. Does anybody know what's going on? Thanks. Dr. Galvin Hobbes @ FTEG --=20 ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up f= or Ads Free at Mail.com [2]http://www.mail.com/?sr=3Dsignup References 1. 3D"http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/wrap.do?pageKey=3Dpatch= 2. 3D"http://mail01.mail.com/scripts/payment/adtracking.cgi?bannercode=