Install issues with 7.x

2008-12-16 Thread Ryan
Ok, message didn't send entire post history, this should be it. Hopefully it's readable enough. Hello, I purchased a new Clevo M860TU on the account that it ran linux very well and was hoping it would fair the same on FreeBSD. Not so much, little help? I posted this in mobile originally but though

Re: Install issues with 7.x

2008-12-11 Thread Ryan
Finally had time to understand some how release works and made some new cds. Some new updates to the situation since as I am still having issues. I was not able to figure out how to make release with a custom kernel, would always fail that step so I had to stick with GENERIC. To simulate taking out

Re: Install issues with 7.x

2008-11-04 Thread Joel Dahl
Ryan skrev: Sadly with the quality of BIOS recently, that is not an option. Not much to offer. Attached is a picture of what I have to change. Other and XP are the same, Vista unlocks AHCI. Another way of accomplishing disabling firewire is to remake the install CD with a different kernel and no

Re: Install issues with 7.x

2008-11-03 Thread Ryan
Sadly with the quality of BIOS recently, that is not an option. Not much to offer. Attached is a picture of what I have to change. Other and XP are the same, Vista unlocks AHCI. Another way of accomplishing disabling firewire is to remake the install CD with a different kernel and not quite sure h

Re: Install issues with 7.x

2008-11-03 Thread Joel Dahl
Ryan skrev: Hello, I purchased a new Clevo M860TU on the account that it ran linux very well and was hoping it would fair the same on FreeBSD. Not so much, little help? I posted this in mobile originally but though stable would be a better choice. Don't know if it is more appropriate here or ACPI

Re: Install issues with 7.x

2008-11-03 Thread Ryan
Thanks for your interest Robert, unfortunately it was a no-go. I went ahead and tested 6.4RC1 and 6.3. Now all I am getting are ACPI errors which I would think I could get the installer going by disabling ACPI. And yes, I'm running on the latest - and only - bios revision for the laptop. The foll

Re: Install issues with 7.x

2008-11-02 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Ryan wrote: Hello, I purchased a new Clevo M860TU on the account that it ran linux very well and was hoping it would fair the same on FreeBSD. Not so much, little help? I posted this in mobile originally but though stable would be a better choice. Don't know if it is more

Install issues with 7.x

2008-10-29 Thread Ryan
Hello, I purchased a new Clevo M860TU on the account that it ran linux very well and was hoping it would fair the same on FreeBSD. Not so much, little help? I posted this in mobile originally but though stable would be a better choice. Don't know if it is more appropriate here or ACPI. I'm giving