Hi there, I was a FreeBSD user for many years back in the day, like 15 years ago. I have this laptop, HP Mini 110-3135dx, it gets very light use. I only use it for web browsing, VNC to my main computer, and taking some notes. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834157616
It was running Win 7 Starter. Suddenly it wouldn't boot up. BIOS went fine, got to the Windows logo and there it sits. Ugh. I tried the auto-restore function (which is software that resides on another partition on the hard drive. Didn't work. Tried the diagnostics that came with the PC (hard drive, memory, a couple others), all passed.
I used Crunchbang Linux to get in, download a couple files I needed. Next I tried installing Crunchbang. To be honest, I don't really care what OS it runs, like I said, light duty. It didn't work, Crunchbang only worked in live mode, it would hang during installation.
Tried Ubuntu, Fedora, all hang.
I got FreeBSD 9.0 to install actually, but only in safe mode. It is now installed, but will only boot in safe mode. I guess my main question is: can I get x-windows to run in safe mode? I don't see anything x-windows related in sysinstall. Is that because it's in safe mode, or has something drastic changed in the last decade since I last ran FreeBSD? If I could figure out WHAT part of the laptop is broken, I could probably run a custom kernel that ignored that hardware. So I guess now I need to figure out what's broken?
The last line that shows says:
Terrible-quality photo of screen is attached (if I did it right).
I presume it's whatever is after that that doesn't work. When I run dmesg in safe mode, the above line doesn't show up, so I guess that's skipped. Help! What next? I'm open to any OS, any sort of solution that can at LEAST run VNC so I can view my main computer screen. One more thing, I likely won't be able to respond for another week, so my apologies if I seem to disappear.
Thanks!
-Porter
It was running Win 7 Starter. Suddenly it wouldn't boot up. BIOS went fine, got to the Windows logo and there it sits. Ugh. I tried the auto-restore function (which is software that resides on another partition on the hard drive. Didn't work. Tried the diagnostics that came with the PC (hard drive, memory, a couple others), all passed.
I used Crunchbang Linux to get in, download a couple files I needed. Next I tried installing Crunchbang. To be honest, I don't really care what OS it runs, like I said, light duty. It didn't work, Crunchbang only worked in live mode, it would hang during installation.
Tried Ubuntu, Fedora, all hang.
I got FreeBSD 9.0 to install actually, but only in safe mode. It is now installed, but will only boot in safe mode. I guess my main question is: can I get x-windows to run in safe mode? I don't see anything x-windows related in sysinstall. Is that because it's in safe mode, or has something drastic changed in the last decade since I last ran FreeBSD? If I could figure out WHAT part of the laptop is broken, I could probably run a custom kernel that ignored that hardware. So I guess now I need to figure out what's broken?
The last line that shows says:
Code:
acpi_lid0L <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0Terrible-quality photo of screen is attached (if I did it right).
I presume it's whatever is after that that doesn't work. When I run dmesg in safe mode, the above line doesn't show up, so I guess that's skipped. Help! What next? I'm open to any OS, any sort of solution that can at LEAST run VNC so I can view my main computer screen. One more thing, I likely won't be able to respond for another week, so my apologies if I seem to disappear.
Thanks!
-Porter
