Help on Compaq Laptop Presario 3000 AMD Athlon 64 -Nvida-gforce3 chipset

[Peter N. M. Hansteen]

Kangaroo <saigon_ca at yahoo.com> writes:

> I need help on instaling freebsd 5.3 AMD64 on my lap top.
> 
> When I boot from cd rom, The system boot up to menu screen
> show 1...7 where 2 eg. boot with disable ACPI...
> My system automatically shutdown when I press any key from
> 1 or 7 or just press enter. I mean it SHUTDOWN my machine.

There is a possibility that the machine contains various components
which are not fully supported in FreeBSD/amd64. What happens if you try
booting FreeBSD/i386 instead? 

I know this may not be the most satisfying suggestion, but if it's that
or not getting the machine to boot at all, well, there it is. I'd
venture a guess that whichever software came with the machine originally
is not quite 64 bit clean either.

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