amd64/105514: FreeBSD/amd64 - Fails to boot on HP Pavilion dv8000 Laptop

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 19 13:34:02 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 18 March 2008 10:50:04 pm Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR amd64/105514; it has been noted by
> GNATS.
>
> From: "Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T" <jeffh at dundeemt.com>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, swhetzel at gmail.com
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: amd64/105514: FreeBSD/amd64 - Fails to boot on HP Pavilion
> dv8000 Laptop Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:14:42 -0500
>
>  Dell T105
>
>  Same problem with BTX Halted and scrolling screen.
>
>  Booting from USB CDROM
>  Space bar trick does not work for me.
>
>  Affects:
>
>  FBSD-6.3-AMD64-Boot-Only
>  FBSD-6.3-AMD64-Disc1
>  FBSD-7.0-AMD64-Disc1
>  FBSD-7.0-i386-Disc1
>
>
>
>  ouch.

The USB CDROM issue is a separate issue that was just fixed a few days ago.  
You can try grabbing the latest 8.0 snapshot to see if it works ok.

-- 
John Baldwin


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