Boot issues with a Dell Inspiron 530 and 8.0 RC1

[Christian Schmidt]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 17:17, Gavin Atkinson
<gavin.atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk> wrote:
[...]
>
> If you answer no, does it work?

I am not really given the choice here. It's always y. FreeBSD-Devs
have a great sense of humor. :-)

> There are a couple of things that might be worth trying.  Firstly, try
> playing with any USB-related options in the BIOS (especially "legacy
> emulation" or similar.

Alright, I will try that and give some feedback.

> Secondly, try editing src/sys/amd64/amd64/machdep.c
> (or /sys/i386/i386/machdep.c if you are using i386), search for
> "MacBook", and adding the output of the command
> "kenv smbios.system.product"
> to the list of strings compared.

Just for some understanding: what will that exactly do and why "MacBook"?

> This may not make any difference, or may even make things worse (so keep
> your backup kernel ready:) but it's worth a try.

Good to know. :-) Thanks.

> Gavin

Christian


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