From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 24 14:52:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7AFE16A40F for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:52:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31EAA43D46 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:52:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so1353921uge for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:52:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ScBNz1KFStJnA0Zrlq1vuFGtvRxesRPHA3ok6Nj06VrF7IKilu9gvtwqpiHVgQnTuamHpnfsklqXQUKHw00DwMRi83SftbcmQ5btpGUijF/KKn2MjLR9T7dR8xZju24QsnUPMpSjAuOH9Ru4M+fVNzFCHzkTIcBpnSuBCb1PLCc= Received: by 10.67.121.15 with SMTP id y15mr8961680ugm; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:52:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.86.8 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:52:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <790a9fff0610240752t5afdd5a2w8cddc7acb2933392@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:52:35 -0500 From: "Scot Hetzel" To: "Walter Brunswick" In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0610240750u3bc1186fl517c0e8cf733fb3d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <000701c6f6f4$1c6e6d90$0502a8c0@walterxp> <790a9fff0610240750u3bc1186fl517c0e8cf733fb3d@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/amd64 6.1-RELEASE on AMD Turion64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:52:46 -0000 On 10/24/06, Scot Hetzel wrote: > It's a strange little bug, that I had come across when setting up my > dv8000 laptop. I could boot the FreeBSD/i386 CD with no problems, but > the screen would dump these hex characters that would continuosly > scroll across the screen when booting the FreeBSD/amd64 CD. > > I'm still seeing the same problem with the FreeBSD/amd64 6.2-Beta2 CD > (tested bootonly CD). My solution was to hit the space bar until the > speakers beeped for a couple of seconds (when you see > /boot/kernel/kernel you can release the space bar), then it loads and > executes the kernel and proceeds to sysinstall. > I have also updated the BIOS to version F.44 and still get the same problem. Scot -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised.