Compaq R3000Z

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 01 April 2005 01:38 am, Matt Hewitt wrote:
> This is a cry for help.
>
> I own a compaq r3000z laptop...AMD Athlon XP-M....the laptop just
> powers off when trying to boot the install cd
>
> from my understanding there have been recent patches included in the
> 5.4 Beta 1 release of FreeBSD for x86_64...but these patches have
> failed to make it into the x86 (32 bit) release, because the install
> disk still fails to boot
>
> I just wanted to inform the devs that not all of these laptops come
> with 64 bit cpus, and it would be nice if they would include the
> patches so 32 bit users like me could sucessly install FreeBSD
>
> Any other tips would be welcome, I'm pulling my hair out trying
> different Linux distros....but i just want my FreeBSD

All the patches are in both i386 and amd64.  You will need to use 
hint.atkbd.0.flags=9 for now, though you will end up with no usable keyboard.  
Folks on the amd64@ list know all the various quirks needed to get this to 
install and the steps should be the same for both archs.

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