System powers off after selecting boot option

[Nicolas Blais]

On November 5, 2005 12:40 pm, Aaron Job Andrus wrote:
> I'm trying to install 6.0 64bit on my Compaq Presario
> R3000 (AMD Athlon 64 3400+). When I boot to the disk1
> cd I get to the boot menu where I am presented with
> the options to boot default, no acpi, safemode, single
> user mode etc. However, no matter which boot option I
> choose my laptop powers off after a few seconds of
> churning (/-\-/). I can "escape to the boot console".
> Are there any special variables I need to set in order
> to proceed from the boot console?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aaron

before it boots into FreeBSD (at the 10 second countdown), press 6 to go to 
the boot loader.  

When there, type:
set hint.atkbd.0.flags=0x9

Nicolas.
 
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