BIOS smap HP problem

[John Merryweather Cooper]

Paul Floyd wrote:
> Hi
>
>   
>> What model of HP?
>>     
>
> An xw9400 with 4G of RAM.
>
> A+
> Paul
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>
>   
Detailed specs at 
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12594_na/12594_na.HTML

Your workstation has an Nvidia chipset like my laptop (an HP dv9420us).  
Try this workaround:

1) when the boot splash screen appears, start pressing <spacebar>.

2) this should result in the FreeBSD boot slice prompt to appear; just 
press <enter>.

This is the ONLY way I can get my laptop to boot with FreeBSD (install 
disks or otherwise).

jmc