Hi all,
I have been wanting to install FreeBSD and today was the day, unfortunately it did not go so well. Right now the machine will not boot, it does not even let me get to the bios menu. It wirls the dvd drive if disk is in there, whirls the hard drive, starts the fan, then blinks a light four times on the caps lock, which according to HP (I have a HP DV5-2045dx pavillion, icore3, integrated graphics) means graphics controller failure, although according to anecdotes on the web it could also be a host of other things. Point being I cannot even get to BIOS even with a Windows or Linux or FreeBSD rescue CD nothing happens. The machine is virtually new.
My install. I was pushing it, I already have Windows 7 and Ubuntu (I have been a Linux user for 13 years), so I thought I was ready for FreeBSD. I freed up my last physical primary partition (6.25 GB). Partition one was MBR, Partition 2 was Windows 7. Partition 3 was an extended partition containing Ubuntu, and Partition 4 was to be free BSD.
The install seemed to go fine. I created 3 sub-partitions "/" 1.25 GB, "/tmp" .25 GB, and "/usr" 4.75 GB. I choose not to install swap, hoping to use the linux swap and recognising I have 4GB of Ram. I also choose not to install a bootloader, hoping to use GRUB, already installed.
It installed a the things I asked (I had a DVD 8.1 amd64 install disk) including all the ports packages. It told me congratulations! I was at a later menu, which was optional, it had about eight choices, including set the root password, it had choices to install Free BSD and third party software, etc. By accident I pressed return on the last choice which was something like "Save Krale (?) to floppy" It told me there was no floppy available, then text scrolled up the screen, it then crashed.
I was never asked anything about host name, users, ip address, wireless, etc. it crashed before that.
That was the last the computer boot up. It seems impossible that the failed installation would affect the Bios or the MBr (partition 1). Or am I wrong?
Any thoughts?
Thanks in Advance,
Steve
I have been wanting to install FreeBSD and today was the day, unfortunately it did not go so well. Right now the machine will not boot, it does not even let me get to the bios menu. It wirls the dvd drive if disk is in there, whirls the hard drive, starts the fan, then blinks a light four times on the caps lock, which according to HP (I have a HP DV5-2045dx pavillion, icore3, integrated graphics) means graphics controller failure, although according to anecdotes on the web it could also be a host of other things. Point being I cannot even get to BIOS even with a Windows or Linux or FreeBSD rescue CD nothing happens. The machine is virtually new.
My install. I was pushing it, I already have Windows 7 and Ubuntu (I have been a Linux user for 13 years), so I thought I was ready for FreeBSD. I freed up my last physical primary partition (6.25 GB). Partition one was MBR, Partition 2 was Windows 7. Partition 3 was an extended partition containing Ubuntu, and Partition 4 was to be free BSD.
The install seemed to go fine. I created 3 sub-partitions "/" 1.25 GB, "/tmp" .25 GB, and "/usr" 4.75 GB. I choose not to install swap, hoping to use the linux swap and recognising I have 4GB of Ram. I also choose not to install a bootloader, hoping to use GRUB, already installed.
It installed a the things I asked (I had a DVD 8.1 amd64 install disk) including all the ports packages. It told me congratulations! I was at a later menu, which was optional, it had about eight choices, including set the root password, it had choices to install Free BSD and third party software, etc. By accident I pressed return on the last choice which was something like "Save Krale (?) to floppy" It told me there was no floppy available, then text scrolled up the screen, it then crashed.
I was never asked anything about host name, users, ip address, wireless, etc. it crashed before that.
That was the last the computer boot up. It seems impossible that the failed installation would affect the Bios or the MBr (partition 1). Or am I wrong?
Any thoughts?
Thanks in Advance,
Steve