Hanging boot on hp 6000 series notebook

[Janne Mäkinen]

On Monday 09 January 2006 13:28, Kehinde Akiode wrote:
> Hi. I've been trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 (amd64) from CD on my HP zv6130
> notebook, so far without success. It's obviously a problem lots of people
> have reported, from what I can see.
> I tried one suggestion, entering the following at the boot loader prompt:
>
> set hw.acpi.skip_timer_override="1"
> set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x9"
> set hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
>
> Yet it STILL hangs! I checked the installation ISO images, they're ok
> according to the MD5 signatures. Pls if anyone has any further ideas, I
> would be much obliged.
> Oh, and I also tried:
>
>  set hint.sio.0.disabled="1"
>
> - no luck there either.

If you desperately want it installed, you might want to check this page: 

http://savot.org/ukki/freebsd/