Installers for FreeBSD fail to boot HP ProBook 440 G7

Waitman Gobble waitman at waitman.net
Fri Dec 4 00:34:53 UTC 2020


On 2020-12-03 20:25, Graham Perrin wrote:
> Where installers for FreeBSD 12.2 and 13.0-CURRENT fail to boot, the
> installer for OmniOS community edition succeeds.
> 
> 
> Photographs and other details at
> <https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/ir90ra/hp_probook_440_g7/gejo49g/>;
> "I'm advised that it's symptomatic of the kernel not loading.".
> 
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Something to check out?
That machine has Intel and NVidia gpu, you should check the BIOS 
settings. I have a Lenovo laptop that won't boot if it's set in BIOS to 
'detect/auto', I think it's called Optimus? But my Dell that also has 
both boots fine although there's no selectable option in BIOS.

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Waitman Gobble


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