From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 21 04:17:16 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 3E42016A4CF for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 04:17:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mra03.ex.eclipse.net.uk (mra03.ex.eclipse.net.uk [212.104.129.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D284C43D2F for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 04:17:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fun@thingy.apana.org.au) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mra03.ex.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4C392E32D8 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:15:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mra03.ex.eclipse.net.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mra03.ex.eclipse.net.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23480-01-29 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:15:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from thingy.apana.org.au (dyn-81-5-132-49.dsl.eclipse.net.uk [81.5.132.49]) by mra03.ex.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F07112E3441 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:15:54 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <405D86E4.9000908@thingy.apana.org.au> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:13:24 +0000 From: David Gerard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040129 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org References: <40579749.6010201@velvet.net> In-Reply-To: <40579749.6010201@velvet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by Eclipse VIRUSshield at eclipse.net.uk Subject: Re: 4.9 installation woes (on thinkpad 560X) 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: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:17:16 -0000 On 03/17/04 00:09, David Gerard wrote: > I was advised by a few people (including the laptop's previous owner) that > FreeBSD 5.x would be quite difficult to get working with sound, and that > it would be a better idea to try with 4.9. > I have just spent a few hours carefully reinstalling the laptop with > FreeBSD 4.9. Restart for its first boot ... and it won't. It sits there at > F1 DOS > F2 FreeBSD > Default: F2 _ > and seems to consider the keyboard beneath its notice. Odd, since the > caps lock light goes on and off as expected. But nothing will get it off > this screen. > The DOS partition is a 20 meg partition for IBM system tools, as yet not > installed. It's also before the FreeBSD partition on the disk, if that's > relevant. Wiped and tried again. First with the whole disk as a FreeBSD partition, to see if 4.9 would go on at all (it did). Then with FreeBSD as the *first* partition, and a DOS partition taking the other half of the disk (my wife has decided the laptop will be more usable dual-booting into Windows). Now it's working fine :-) Still haven't got sound going, but will let the list know when I do! - d.