Hi,
When I try to install FreeBSD, my brand new HP Pavilion laptop turns
itself off. It does not matter if I use 4.x or 5.x, CD or floppies.
There is no error log since it just shuts off after I choose to load a
kernel. I have tried loading with ACPI off, and it does not help. I
believe I t
bsdnooby writes:
> When I try to install FreeBSD, my brand new HP Pavilion laptop turns
> itself off.
While it's rather late for me to make this observation, I find that
computers from big-name vendors tend to show a great deal of
interdependence between the pre-installed OS and the hardware. Th
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> Atkielski
> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 9:28 PM
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> Subject: Re: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.
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Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
> Generally the MO in the past has been to use the el-cheapo-ist components
> possible, then when the OEM vendors discover some hardware bug or other
> shortfall, they have Microsoft help them to write around the problems
> with various patches, which are included in the O
> > First of all HP purchased Compaq a while ago, and when the sale was
> > completed they dumped the Netserver line, servers from them are
> > now HP Proliants. (Proliant was the Compaq line)
>
> Are they as good as their HP and Compaq predecessors?
We recently had a Proliant DL380 for testing,
Fabian Anklam writes:
> We recently had a Proliant DL380 for testing, seemed like solid
> hardware, literally, the server management CD for preparing the system
> for different flavors of OSes just worked as it was supposed to ...
What preparation is required? Can't you just wipe the disk and in
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> Subject: Re: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched.
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