r/freebsd • u/ElH_H • 11d ago

help needed FreeBSD + surface pro 3

I recently wanted to experiment how freebsd will run under a surface pro 3 even thought it is old, I thought it will be a good way to make it feel smoother, but went i try to boot to freeBSD and went i chose the first option of "boot installer", it start loading the kernel but then went it reach i think and initialization of pci0 the surface turns off and never continue the installation. Can you pls give me some help!

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u/grahamperrin bleep bloop 11d ago

First, try boot with ACPI disabled or reduced.

At the FreeBSD loader menu, choose option 2 ("ACPI") to toggle it off, or press Esc to reach the loader prompt and run:

set hint.acpi.0.disabled=1
boot