Problems Booting

[Lars Engels]

Quoting Joseph Yeager <joeyea323 at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> 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 installation procedure runs perfectly fine
> using the normal boot procedure (option 1).  No matter what option I hit
> when trying to boot after installation, it seems to completely freeze.  If I
> select an option that has ACPI enabled, it will do this after displaying a
> message about loading acpi.ko.  I say that it seems to completely freeze
> because I'm not sure if it is still actually loading something and perhaps
> I'm not seeing it.  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.  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.  I'm really trying to minimize my Windows
> usage as I can't stand it and I would prefer to get FreeBSD on here so any
> help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe


Hello Joe,

which version of FreesBIE do you use? What does uname -a show?

Lars