Re: Compaq R3000Z problem

[Jung-uk Kim <juikim@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just got a Compaq R3000Z laptop.  I was hoping that I could use
> FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD on it but it doesn't boot at all.  I searched
> FreeBSD PR and I found this:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=67745
>
> I wasn't ready to give up yet, so I tried OpenBSD/amd64 3.5,
> NetBSD/amd64 2.0-Beta, Gentoo/amd64 2004.1, Mandrake/amd64 10.0RC2,
> FreeBSD 3.5.1, 4.x, 5.x (i386 and amd64 snapshots), and finally,
> DragonFlyBSD snapshot - yes, it took me hours to try them all. :-(
> All of FreeBSD's and DragonFlyBSD failed (with or without acpi/safe
> mode) and everything else worked flawlessly.  I feel really bad now
> because there is no easy way to debug this kind of failure.  I know that
> something's going on between loader and kernel init but that's all I can
> see.  Is there any way that I can debug this issue or does anybody know
> what may cause this?

I sorry that I reply to myself.

I found somebody else had the same issue.

http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/2004-05/0598.html

Just like he said, it powers down immediately when it displays first \ 
from \|/-.

Thanks,

Jung-uk Kim

> Thanks,
>
> Jung-uk Kim