Re: dell inspiron 2650

Marc Fonvieille <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:01:02AM -0700, Don Kingdon wrote:
> Hi,
>   I have a dell inspiron 2650 which I tried to put freebsd 4.4 and 4.7 onto...in both cases I was told the error i got was saying I had an incompatable chipset.  Its been a while since I last tried so I cant get any clearer on the error message, but I was wondering if anyone has any version of freebsd installed on a dell inspiron.  I will be trying tomorrow night to install 5.1 and I will comment on the success or failure soon.   I figure someone is gonna ask me for the puter specs so here they are:

[...]

It is a known problem with that laptop:

At boot, during kernel countdown, hit space.
At OK prompt type boot -c
then eisa 0
then quit

It should boot, once the system is installed, build a kernel with a
commented out "device eisa" line.

Marc
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