Hello, I'm a newbie and I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a old laptop, but somehow it doesn't even complete the boot
Issue
Tried to install FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE on an old laptop, boot gets stuck on a black screen
System
HP Compaq 6710b, 4 GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 with Intel i965GM graphics.
Procedure
Loading kernel...
/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x18aa98 text=0xdfd150 data=0x140 (...)
Black screen
Issue
Tried to install FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE on an old laptop, boot gets stuck on a black screen
System
HP Compaq 6710b, 4 GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 with Intel i965GM graphics.
Procedure
- Downloaded the amd64 memstick image, checked sha512, burned it on a USB
- Burned the image on Linux with dd, on Windows with win32diskimager, on different USB sticks. Tested the sticks on different laptops, they all work (except this one). Probably the issue does not reside in the stick creation part.
- Booted from USB, tried with default options/in safe mode/multi user/single user, always with the same result
- The laptop is able to boot other OSes from USB (actually there only is Artix, no Windows)
- Got black screen with full-throttle fans (left it alone for ~15 minutes, nothing changed)
Loading kernel...
/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x18aa98 text=0xdfd150 data=0x140 (...)
Black screen