Last try: HP Pavillion zv5445us shuts down during install of 5.3

[Randy Pratt]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:39:27 -0500
bsdnooby <bsdnooby at optonline.net> wrote:

> HP Pavillion zv5445us shuts down during install of 5.3
> 
> Right after the screen when you can choose to disable ACPI or to boot in 
> SafeMode (both of which I tried), after making a selection - it 
> shutsdown.  I'm trying to install 5.3 from both floppies and CD1.  I'm 
> dualbooting Win XP Pro using PartitionMagic8/BootMagic8 - but I do not 
> think that is related.  My other Toshiba laptop is using a similar 
> configuration, and works fine.
> 
> I saw in Google where at least 1 other person had this problem, but 
> there was no resolution.  This is a new laptop, P4-3Ghz, 512MB, 100GB 
> drive, LAN & Wifi, etc.
> 
> Anyone have success with the newer HP pavillions?

Try asking on freebsd-questions or freebsd-mobile mailing lists.

I'm not at all familiar with laptops so I can't begin to guess
what might be the issue.  I had an old 200Mhz box that I couldn't
get the CD-ROM to boot Sysinstall but booting with floppies and
using the CD-ROM as the installation media too care of that one.

Good Luck!

Randy


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