Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:25:12 +0530 From: Anoop Kumar Narayanan <anoop.kn@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop Message-ID: <7ff5545f1003190955m4a4b3050p369e1044216edab1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4324dbec1003190719t45036b4fvb44ecff3049e38e2@mail.gmail.com> References: <7ff5545f1003120000t3db354b0pe405b9f56b38979b@mail.gmail.com> <7ff5545f1003190620n5835d60dh6168c9c2621becd5@mail.gmail.com> <4324dbec1003190719t45036b4fvb44ecff3049e38e2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Richard DeLaurell <richard.delaurell@gmail.com> wrote: >>On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan <anoop.kn@gmail.com>wrote: >>I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with >>absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed). >>Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to >>the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses >>for about 15 secs and the computer suddenly powers down. I was able to >>boot into the system occasionally lets say about 1 in 5 boots. I am >>able to install and boot into Linux without any problem. > > > So then you are attempting to startup using a power adaptor (i.e. your > computer is plugged in to a wall socket)? Yes. I don't know if its a specific Athlon XP related problem as I did observe a similar post some years ago. And, Apparently its the same thing. http://osdir.com/ml/os.freebsd.devel.hardware/2004-10/msg00044.html In this case its the installation. In my case its after the installation. > > I had the reverse problem a while ago with Slackware shutting down in the > middle of installation onto a Toshiba laptop while FreeBSD has always been > no problem. > > My guess is that these issues reflect power management settings, perhaps > even something in the bios. Maybe its something in the BIOS, but the thing is that Linux boots fine on the machine. Maybe some driver is crashing and is causing a reboot of the machine. Are there any critical drivers in the system that can result in such a problem. > > Does this occur when you use the installation or boot-only disks? I can install it just fine, but can't seem to to boot into the installed version (Once its been installed). I did create the FreeBSD swap partition before the root file-system (and it still seems to label the root file-system as 'a'), Would this affect the system boot up in anyway ? > > Sorry this is not more help to you. > > Richard > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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