Cannot install FreeBSD 5.3 on notebook Toshiba A40-231

Ramiro Aceves ea1abz at wanadoo.es
Tue Nov 30 07:11:21 PST 2004


slatvick wrote:
> Hello People,
> 
>    I have Notebook Toshiba A40-231. I've tried to install FreeBSD 5.3
>    on it and had failure.
>    CD plays, then I see menu, choose anyone(default, acpi disabled,...)
>    and then after several lines Computer is stopped. Also I've tried
>    to install with disabled acpi and without DMA, the result had not
>    changed.
> 
>    How could I solve my problem?
>    
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Dear slatvick

I have the same problem with my old pentium 100 machine. I have read 
many docs but I have not been able to solve the problem. Have you tried 
FreeBSD 4.10? It works here, but 5.3 does not.

Sorry, I can not help you as I am a FreeBSD novice (not a Linux one)
Good luck
Ramiro.



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