Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:52:35 -0500 From: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: "Walter Brunswick" <walterbrunswick@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/amd64 6.1-RELEASE on AMD Turion64 Message-ID: <790a9fff0610240752t5afdd5a2w8cddc7acb2933392@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0610240750u3bc1186fl517c0e8cf733fb3d@mail.gmail.com> References: <000701c6f6f4$1c6e6d90$0502a8c0@walterxp> <790a9fff0610240750u3bc1186fl517c0e8cf733fb3d@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/24/06, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> 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.
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