Okay, then it seems like that this is a problem with HP NC notebooks in
general - I wonder why it isn't fixed then ...
I had an old bios revision and updated to a newer one - without improvement.
Tried the latest snapshot - without improvement.
Hmm ... what is going to be cheaper? Selling this notebook and buy a
Thinkpad - or donating to OpenBSD when this problem is beeing fixed ...
*think*
Peter Bako wrote:
I have a HP NC6000 laptop with the same problem. In my case I was using
OpenBSD 3.8 (though the problem still occurs with 3.9) and initial install
went normally. However after I updated my BIOS to the latest version (F.14)
it would no longer boot - more precisely it would crash shortly after
starting to boot up. This happened both with my installed image as well as
off the install CD. Since then I have successfully installed both Windows
and Fedora as a test and both worked without any problems.
The only response I got back to my post on this group regarding the problem
was to go back a version or two of the BIOS until things boot normally.
Unfortunately I have not had time to play with it yet, but you can try and
see if this helps you out.
If you find another solution, or an older BIOS works for you, please let me
know.
Peter
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Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 23:13:28 +0200
From: Vincent Immler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: notebook: HP Compaq nc6220 - unable to boot from installation CD
(crashes)
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi folks,
I own a HP Compaq nc6220. I really like this notebook, business look and
quality. But I have a serious problem with OpenBSD.
I just tried an OpenBSD 3.9 installation CD on it and can't boot
properly (already had that problem with OpenBSD 3.8)
The boot process stops at different points every time, so it doesn't
help to disable devices (anyway I tried it!)
Does anyone have similar problems? Is there any solution available? The
Hardware should be fine (~6 months old, Windows/FreeBSD/Knoppix all work!)!
I don't want to sell this notebook and buy a Thinkpad instead ... ;-\
Thanks for your help in advance.
All the best,
Vincent
