Pavilion BTX boot Problem

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Sep 17 21:18:40 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 17 September 2008 04:30:39 pm Baris Gerze wrote:
> John,
> Please look at, you can find previos fix for 7.0-stable brunch...
> 
> 
> 
http://www.nabble.com/HP-Pavilion-dv2000-laptop-wont-boot-off-install-cd-td18479606.html

If you read that whole thread, you can see that the laptop has a bug in the 
BIOS/hardware that causes it to read corrupted data off of the CD during 
boot.  You have to break into the BIOS boot menu and wait for the CD to stop 
spinning and then boot off of the CD.

-- 
John Baldwin


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