[nycbug-talk] Help me install a BSD on a notebook

Scott Robbins scottro at nyc.rr.com
Mon Jan 13 21:34:05 EST 2014


On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:52:38PM -0500, Brian Callahan wrote:
> On 1/12/2014 1:48 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I don't know about that one.  I have successfully installed FreeBSD 9x and
> >>10x on  my ultrabook UX31E.
> >>
> >>I also tried to install OpenBSD on it, but couldn't get it to boot--I do't
> >>remember the exact error--IIRC, it installed, but upon reboot gave a kernel
> >>panic.  In all cases, the machine was sharing the disk with Linux.
> >>
> 
> If you still get a kernel panic with OpenBSD -current on reboot,
> please file a bug report. We can't fix problems we don't know about.

Fair enough, and not aimed as a slight at OpenBSD.  It was just something I
tried during an idle hour, and, when it didn't work, spent no effort trying
to fix. 

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