Re: Installers for FreeBSD fail to boot HP ProBook 440 G7

From: Waitman Gobble <waitman_at_waitman.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:34:50 -0400
On 2020-12-03 20:25, Graham Perrin wrote:
> Where installers for FreeBSD 12.2 and 13.0-CURRENT fail to boot, the
> installer for OmniOS community edition succeeds.
> 
> 
> Photographs and other details at
> <https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/ir90ra/hp_probook_440_g7/gejo49g/>;
> "I'm advised that it's symptomatic of the kernel not loading.".
> 
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list
> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to 
> "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org"

Something to check out?
That machine has Intel and NVidia gpu, you should check the BIOS 
settings. I have a Lenovo laptop that won't boot if it's set in BIOS to 
'detect/auto', I think it's called Optimus? But my Dell that also has 
both boots fine although there's no selectable option in BIOS.

-- 
Waitman Gobble
Received on Thu Dec 03 2020 - 23:34:53 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:41:26 UTC