FreeBSD 8.0 Booting Problem on ZV5320US Laptop

[Anoop Kumar Narayanan]

<richard.delaurell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you able to get to the FreeBSD splash screen (where you get a countdown
> to startup with a menu of 6 selections)?

Yes, It doesn't go beyond that selection most of the time.
>
> One of the choices there is boot w/o ACPI; you could try that if you get
> that far.

That is exactly where I am, at that screen when I make the selection
(any selection) it just pauses for about 30 Secs before the computer
shuts down. Tried all options including 'set hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"'
followed by 'boot' at the loader prompt. Its more or less 1 successful
boot in 7 attempts, totally random, not dependent on w/o ACPI is
picked or not, sometimes it just works with verbose logging or normal
boot.

It is definitely something to do with the RESET BIOS timer (If at all
there is anything like that) expiring before FreeBSD kernel can fully
load or something... Thank you HP !

-Anoop
>
> Good luck--
>
> Richard
>
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan <anoop.kn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Richard DeLaurell
>> <richard.delaurell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan
>> >> <anoop.kn at gmail.com>wrote:
>> >>I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with
>> >>absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed).
>> >>Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to
>> >>the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses
>> >>for about 15 secs and the computer suddenly powers down. I was able to
>> >>boot into the system occasionally lets say about 1 in 5 boots. I am
>> >>able to install and boot into Linux without any problem.
>> >
>> >
>> > So then you are attempting to startup using a power adaptor (i.e. your
>> > computer is plugged in to a wall socket)?
>> Yes. I don't know if its a specific Athlon XP related problem as I did
>> observe a similar post some years ago. And, Apparently its the same
>> thing.
>> http://osdir.com/ml/os.freebsd.devel.hardware/2004-10/msg00044.html
>> In this case its the installation. In my case its after the installation.
>> >
>> > I had the reverse problem a while ago with Slackware shutting down in
>> > the
>> > middle of installation onto a Toshiba laptop while FreeBSD has always
>> > been
>> > no problem.
>> >
>> > My guess is that these issues reflect power management settings, perhaps
>> > even something in the bios.
>> Maybe its something in the BIOS, but the thing is that Linux boots
>> fine on the machine. Maybe some driver is crashing and is causing a
>> reboot of the machine. Are there any critical drivers in the system
>> that can result in such a problem.
>> >
>> > Does this occur when you use the installation or boot-only disks?
>> I can install it just fine, but can't seem to to boot into the
>> installed version (Once its been installed).
>> I did create the FreeBSD swap partition before the root file-system
>> (and it still seems to label the root file-system as 'a'), Would this
>> affect the system boot up in anyway ?
>> >
>> > Sorry this is not more help to you.
>> >
>> > Richard
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