I was never able to boot any FreeBSD 7.x release on my asus l3000d laptop. The system freezes shortly after boot, with no diagnostic message, sometimes just before user-space keyboard selection, sometimes while navigating the menu. Booting with ACPI disabled or in "safe mode" doesn't help. The core is an AMD athlon xp-m 2500+ on a SiS 740 chipset. If the full hw specification is needed, please provide instructions to get it in a 6.x environment. FreeBSD up to 6.x always worked fine on this laptop. Regards -- g.b. How-To-Repeat: boot from the livefs or 1st install cd.
State Changed From-To: open->feedback To submitter: firstly, is this with the i386 or amd64 CD? Which versions of 7.x have you tried? (7.0? 7.1? 7.2?) Can you also try the 8.0 snapshot bootonly CD (at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200905/ ) and see if that makes a difference? Lastly, what do you mean by "user-space keyboard selection"?
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gavin@FreeBSD.org wrote: > To submitter: firstly, is this with the i386 or amd64 CD? Which > versions of 7.x have you tried? (7.0? 7.1? 7.2?) Can you also > try the 8.0 snapshot bootonly CD (at > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200905/ ) and see if > that makes a difference? > > Lastly, what do you mean by "user-space keyboard selection"? > > 1. my laptop is 32-bit. I'm trying i386 exclusively; 2. I tried 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2; 3. I'll try 8.0 snapshot as soon as possible; 4. "user-space keyboard selection" means the menu for keyboard selection that is shown after the kernel finishes hw inizialization/detection, mounts the CD and executes init (sysinstall?) in user-space. best regards -- giuseppe
gavin@FreeBSD.org wrote: > [...] Can you also > try the 8.0 snapshot bootonly CD (at > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200905/ ) and see if > that makes a difference? > I've tried 8.0 snapshot bootonly: in "normal mode", the system freezes just after printing the line "starting sysinstall as init"; in "safe mode", it lasts a little longer: I'm able to start a shell on vt4, run a few commands (such as "find /stand"), and then the system freezes. really weird... regards -- gb
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