RE: Problems with FreeBSD installation
Ben Fallon <[email protected]>
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What model of laptop is it? I just subscribed to the list yesterday and may have missed the beginning of this thread. You can also check here http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ It provides details for a bunch of laptops and what the findings were for the models they tested. On Linux, a simple dmesg will help on seeing what devices were found by your os otherwise, like BSD, the lspci also works the same. Sorry I can't help more without a bit more information. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Miguel Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 4:26 AM To: Mel Flynn Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Mel Flynn<[email protected]> wrote: > Your best bet is to poll the mobile list (CC'd) to see if anyone was > able to get FreeBSD working on this laptop (or even to know whether > this is a lost cause till somebody makes some patches for this > laptop). Since 7.2 also does not work and with 8.0-RELEASE being in > it's final stages, it's unlikely you can get some priority from the > developers for it being a regression bug. The acpi and missing disk > can be related (most likely are), but unless you get at least a live > FS working (even the USB image for 8.0-BETA2) it will be hard to get > an acpidump(8). So this really depends on "someone knowledgeable > having this laptop" or BIOS tricks that get you to a stage where more info can be gathered and saved/snapshot. Ok, I understand chances to have it running in the short term are not high :-) Anyway, and since I am replying to the mobile list, I am available to provide more information about the laptop. I have Linux running on it and I believe there is something similar to the acpidump (not sure if its the same tool as in FreeBSD or if their outputs are compatible) that I could use to provide some more details. Regards, Miguel _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"