Installers for FreeBSD fail to boot HP ProBook 440 G7: discrete graphics

On 04/12/2020 00:34, Waitman Gobble wrote:
> 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.". …
>
> 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.
>

Thanks, the BIOS on this machine allows me to set an amount of video 
memory, and so on, but I see nothing relating to the discrete GPU.


(I see HP support articles on how to disable discrete graphics on some 
other models, but not the ProBook 440 G7.)