Re: Problems Booting

Mel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 08 October 2007 19:08:37 Joseph Yeager wrote:

> I have a Tosbhia M65-S9092 laptop that I've been trying to get FreeBSD on.
> I've tried 6.2-RELEASE, 5.5-RELEASE, and PC-BSD v1.4 and they all have the
> same problem's booting. 

[...]

> The keyboard is completely non-responsive, however it 
> will access the hard drive for a quick second twice and it will spin up the
> CD drive once.  After that, nothing happens and I'm forced to do a hard
> shutdown.  I've tried booting with everything disconnected from the
> computer, with a usb keyboard connected, and with another monitor
> connected, and the exact same thing happens every time.

Did you try to change the cd-rom drive?

> Most recently I 
> tried changing the drive geometry during install to what is shown on my
> hard drive and that did not change anything.  What really drives me crazy
> is the fact that FreeSBIE runs perfectly fine.

Can you mount filesystems from the harddrive in FreeSBIE?
The output of pcifconf -lv on FreeSBIE would be very useful.
-- 
Mel
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