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Metalhead01
11-10-2002, 07:33 PM
I picked up this laptop (http://www.xtremenotebooks.com/index.php?section=specs&model_id=194) about two weeks ago, and I've been having a h3ll of a time getting anything decent installed on it. Here's the list of everything I've tried installing on it so far (as a reference)

1. Mandrake 9.0-Installed OK, but quickly got on my nerves
2. Gentoo 1.2-Installs fine, but refuses to boot
3. SuSE 8.0-Installs fine, but won't recognize my orinoco wireless PCMCIA card
4. Debian 3.0-Freezes when I try using my wireless card.
5. Red Hat 8.0-Installs fine, works fine, too slow + RPM dependancy roulette = annoying
6. Slackware 8.1-Computer attempts to boot from CD, then restarts.
7. Evil Entity-Installer refuses to write to hard drive
8. FreeBSD 4.7 (The one I REALLY want to try)-When booting from either CD or floppy, error message appears saying that the kernel can't be loaded.

I've read a bit about FreeBSD & have been wanting to try it out for a while. I've been using Linux for over a year now (currently running Gentoo 1.2 on my desktop) and decided to try putting FreeBSD on my evil laptop, but it doesn't feel like cooperating.

Here's what happens:

code:
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap leader, Revision 0.8
(e-mail address)
Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
Guesses BIOS device 0x0 not found by probes, defaulting to disk0:


Hit [Enter] blah blah blah
Booting [kernel]...
can't load 'kernel'
can't load 'kernel.old'



The CD is good; I tested it on my desktop & the install program started without a problem.

If anyone has a few pointers, I'd greatly appreciate them.

Metalhead01
11-13-2002, 10:49 AM
Don't know if this will help or not, but I've got some additional info to help:

Some additional info that might help:

Output of lsdev:
disk0: BIOS drive C:
disk0s1: ext2fs
disk0s2: ext2fs
disk0s3: Linux swap
pxe @ 0xd6b0

Output of show:
LINES=24
console=vidconsole
currdev=disk0s4a:
interpret=ok
loaddev=disk0s4a:
prompt=${interpret}

I recently found out that the notebook model is actually an American Sunrex model 7300. Xtremenotebooks.com is merely a reseller.