FreeBSD/amd64 6.1-RELEASE on AMD Turion64

[Scot Hetzel]

On 10/24/06, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's a strange little bug, that I had come across when setting up my
> dv8000 laptop.  I could boot the FreeBSD/i386 CD with no problems, but
> the screen would dump these hex characters that would continuosly
> scroll across the screen when booting the FreeBSD/amd64 CD.
>
> I'm still seeing the same problem with the FreeBSD/amd64 6.2-Beta2 CD
> (tested bootonly CD).  My solution was to hit the space bar until the
> speakers beeped for a couple of seconds (when you see
> /boot/kernel/kernel you can release the space bar), then it loads and
> executes the kernel and proceeds to sysinstall.
>
I have also updated the BIOS to version F.44 and still get the same problem.

Scot
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