On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 20:54:37 +1100, Andrew Bird wrote > G'day... > > I recently purchased a HP NX9110 Notebook - and it runs beautifully - > anything except BSD... Windows & Gentoo both run fine. > > Anyway, when I try and boot from one of the BSD install Cd's, it > gets to the bit after the Daemon menu, does the acpi.ko thing, and > then shuts down. Nothing more. When I try the other menu options, > such as ACPI disabled, safe mode, etc, I get the exact same thing. > Oh, and it doesn't matter what version of BSD I try and install - I > happen to have CD's lying around for everything from 5.3-RELEASE to > 3.5.1-RELEASE - all of which I have tried - and I get the exact same > result. I even installed the HDD from another notebook into it and > tried booting from a 5.2.1-RELEASE install on that - same problem. >
Have you tried disabling ACPI in your BIOS? If I boot without ACPI support, but it is enabled in the BIOS, I get a kernel panic during boot. A notebook without ACPI support is rather shabby though :/ Cheers, Jorn. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"