Re: Cannot install FreeBSD 12.0 on HP Compaq DC5850

From: Toomas Soome <tsoome_at_me.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:26:18 +0300
> On 29 Sep 2017, at 09:35, Tommi Pernila <tommi.pernila_at_iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> Hi Elena,
> 
> Thanks for the details.
> I'm also forwarding this to the Current mailing list as it has more devs
> following.
> 


Two things to test - check for bios update and UEFI boot (with decure boot disabled). Also make sure any non-essential devices are disconnected - this hung smells like it is getting stuck on disk device probing, and one case I know I can happen was about SD card reader attached.

rgds,
toomas


> Br,
> 
> Tommi
> 
> 
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 at 10.45, Elena Mihailescu <elenamihailescu22_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Tommi,
>> 
>> 
>> 2017-09-27 21:28 GMT+03:00 Tommi Pernila <tommi.pernila_at_iki.fi>:
>>> Hi Elena,
>>> 
>>> If you can send more details from the hardware, the troubleshooting will
>> be
>>> faster.
>>> E.g. sending a dmesg output (even a screenshot) from the OS.
>>> 
>> 
>> At the moment, there is no OS on this PC. When I try to install FreeBSD,
>> this is the only output which is displayed and everything hangs [1].
>> 
>> I took a picture of system information from BIOS [2]. Please tell me if
>> there is any other information from the hardware which I should provide.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Have you tried booting FreeBSD 11.1-Release?
>>> 
>>> Also when you mention FreeBSD 12.0-Current, is it how old? Or do you know
>>> the release version?
>> 
>> I downloaded FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20170814-r322508-disc1.iso from
>> here [3]. I will try the latest version, which is
>> FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20170925-r323985-disc1.iso and also, I will try
>> FreeBSD 11.1-Release.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Elena
>> 
>> 
>> [1] https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8qXIRloK7xeRDZMdnJBTWRCXzA
>> [2] https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8qXIRloK7xeRU03R3p4OGdnYlU
>> [3]
>> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/
>> 
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