Re: my old laptop bios freezes on reboot after dflyBSD installed

["Edward M." <unixdragonflybsd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/28/11 05:08, Sascha Wildner wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:42:07 +0100, Edward M. 
> <unixdragonflybsd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >   I'm  have an issue with my old  laptop and DragonFlyBSD.
> > it's a rebranded compal 56-15, pentium m, 1GB ram, Ati video. The 
> > issue I'm having is the live cd boots fine after i disabled acpi 
> > within dragonfly. because it was stoping on a error
> > once  the live cd boots with acpi driver disabled, I'm able to 
> > install dragonfly by using the "installer" pogram everthing seems 
> > fine but once i reboot. the bios freezes on reboot on
> > "insyde ACPI BIOS initialized (Version 3.00.05). i have to poweroff 
> > the laptop remove the hd and connect  it to another unit, erase  
> > dragonfly from it and reinstall the
> > hd back to the laptop once again the laptop  boots again. I only need 
> > to install an OS. All other OSes work fine on this unit except dflybsd.
> >
> > Thanks! I'm not sure how i will be able to get the log from dmesg 
> > when it is running from the live cd?
>
> Please check out this issue -> http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/989
>
> Sascha

     I checked it out and  sounds its kinda the  identical problem my 
laptop is having; BIOS freezes while booting, keyboard is non reponsive, 
i have to powerdown the unit.  Another user   suggested turning off APCI 
from the BIOS, but it does not have that feature in  the
     BIOS menu; it  really has a basic BIOS menu. I ran a test  by 
only   formatting the Harddisk with both HAMMER and UFS from  
DragonFlyBSD's installer program to see how laptop would react when 
rebooted,  the same thing  occur , BIOS freezes on "insyde ACPI BIOS 
initialized (Version 3.00.05).".  I Guess the way the installer formats 
the hd is  not agreeing with the way the BIOS functions, etc on this thing.

How can i install DragonFlyBSD manually like it is stated  in the bug 
report by using  -C in fdisk?