freebsd stable - Apr 2005 - FreeBSD 5.4 RC2 on a Compaq Laptop?

Has anyone had any success getting 5.4RC2 installed on a Compaq Presario
laptop?  According to my BIOS, I have a Presario R3200 (Athlon XP
processor).  I get the splash screen, it begins the boot process
and then it just shuts off the computer.

I've tried to disable ACPI, but there appears to be no provision
for that in the BIOS...

Any help would be most appreciated.  And thanks for all the hard work;
it runs like a champ on my desktop box.


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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Matt Meola wrote:
> Has anyone had any success getting 5.4RC2 installed on a Compaq Presario
> laptop?  According to my BIOS, I have a Presario R3200 (Athlon XP
> processor).  I get the splash screen, it begins the boot process
> and then it just shuts off the computer.
See the freebsd-amd64 list archives for an extensive discussion on the
R3000 series. (or was it -mobile? :-) )

You will probably need to run at least -STABLE. These machines are wierd
birds.

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