Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:25:20 -0600 From: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD/AMD64 6.1-Beta4: Strange problem with install CDs boot loader Message-ID: <790a9fff0603220925pde587a8pe15c7087c3007ae5@mail.gmail.com>
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I recently purchased a HP Pavilion dv8135nr Laptop. The strange problem I had was that when the boot loader would load it would crash if I didn't touch any key on the keyboard. The last thing I saw, before it crashed was it reading the /boot/loader.conf off the CD. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to read the crash, as the screen at that point was unreadable. I suspect that the point in which it crashed was when it was loading the kernel, but before it displayed the message that it was loading /boot/kernel/kernel. This problem occured with both the FreeBSD/AMD64 boot-only and disc1 install CD-ROMs. Thinking that I may need to disable something with acpi, I tried to break into the boot loader by pressing the space bar repeatedly. But it wouldn't break into the boot loader, instead it loaded the kernel and I was able to install FreeBSD/AMD64 6.1-Beta 4. Once I had FreeBSD/AMD64 6.1-Beta 4 installed, I was able to repeatedly boot the system from the Hard Drive without the boot loader crashing. Anyone else have a problem with the AMD64 install CDs? Scot -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised.
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