Are you able to get to the FreeBSD splash screen (where you get a countdown to startup with a menu of 6 selections)?
One of the choices there is boot w/o ACPI; you could try that if you get that far. Good luck-- Richard On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Richard DeLaurell > <[email protected]> wrote: > >>On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan <anoop.kn@ > gmail.com>wrote: > >>I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with > >>absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed). > >>Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to > >>the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses > >>for about 15 secs and the computer suddenly powers down. I was able to > >>boot into the system occasionally lets say about 1 in 5 boots. I am > >>able to install and boot into Linux without any problem. > > > > > > So then you are attempting to startup using a power adaptor (i.e. your > > computer is plugged in to a wall socket)? > Yes. I don't know if its a specific Athlon XP related problem as I did > observe a similar post some years ago. And, Apparently its the same > thing. > http://osdir.com/ml/os.freebsd.devel.hardware/2004-10/msg00044.html > In this case its the installation. In my case its after the installation. > > > > I had the reverse problem a while ago with Slackware shutting down in the > > middle of installation onto a Toshiba laptop while FreeBSD has always > been > > no problem. > > > > My guess is that these issues reflect power management settings, perhaps > > even something in the bios. > Maybe its something in the BIOS, but the thing is that Linux boots > fine on the machine. Maybe some driver is crashing and is causing a > reboot of the machine. Are there any critical drivers in the system > that can result in such a problem. > > > > Does this occur when you use the installation or boot-only disks? > I can install it just fine, but can't seem to to boot into the > installed version (Once its been installed). > I did create the FreeBSD swap partition before the root file-system > (and it still seems to label the root file-system as 'a'), Would this > affect the system boot up in anyway ? > > > > Sorry this is not more help to you. > > > > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [email protected]" > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
