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

[Olivier Gautherot]

Hi BSDnooby!

Well, there is no obvious reason why this should happen. Dual boot is a 
non-issue (I've multi-booted the system with WinXP, Linspire and Yellowtab 
Zeta without problem) but, of course, my chipset is different.

I would advocate to send the very same message to questions at freebsd.org with 
the complete list of hardware (motherboard chipset, Ethernet chip, WIFI 
chipset etc. anything you can find on your machine): the experts are there 
and you obviously need them. Try to retrieve the exact error message: it can 
help.

Sorry I can't help you more...
Cheers
 Olivier

On Saturday 12 February 2005 16:39, bsdnooby 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?
>
> thx