Re: Installing Dragonfly 1.8 hangs BIOS completly

["Rauf Kuliyev" <rauf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I bet it is IBM ThinkPad. You can find additional information here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#BOOT-ON-THINKPAD

Regards,
Rauf

On 2/19/07, Michael Neumann <mneumann@ntecs.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just a few minutes ago, I installed Dragonfly 1.8 onto my laptop.
> Then I rebooted, and the BIOS hung up completely after showing that it
> detected the harddisk and cdrom. I powered down and tried again, but
> that didn't worked either. I couldn't even boot a CD or anything else or
> couldn't even enter the BIOS setup.
>
> The only thing that worked was to remove the harddisk physically and
> then pluging it in a few seconds after the BIOS crossed the detection of
> the devices. Using this method, I booted the Dragonfly installer cd and
> used the disk tools to wipe out the beginning of the harddisk. Then I
> rebooted again and voila, I could boot normally (without removing the
> harddisk). Puh!
>
> Now I tried a second time to install Dragonfly 1.8, but after I reboot
> the BIOS hangs again!
>
> I know that the BIOS should not hang up itself, but on the other hand
> that didn't happen with any other operating system I installed on my
> laptop (FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly 1.6). So I think there is something
> wrong in the 1.8 version. Any hints?
>
> Regards,
>
>    Michael