From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 22 00:25:34 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 233AF16A46B for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:25:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4E3813C478 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:25:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from [192.168.2.243] (jn@stealth.jnielsen.net [74.218.226.254]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id lBM0PVXL064180; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:25:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:25:30 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20071221174245.482324qxgn5ynudc@intranet.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <20071221174245.482324qxgn5ynudc@intranet.encontacto.net> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712211925.31112.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Subject: Re: Can't install FreeBSD Current or 7.0 on AMD Turion 64x2 Mobile TL-58 1.9 Ghz in an Acer 5520-5679 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:25:34 -0000 On Friday 21 December 2007, eculp wrote: > We have an almost new Acer 5520-5679 in the office that we intended to > partition and install 8.0-CURRENT-200712-amd64 but much to my > surprise accessing the cdrom it went into an immediate, unreadable > loop of hex numbers that can only be stoped by powering down. I next > tried 7.0BETA-4 standard (no amd64) and I can get to the Welcome menu > but with all options end up with a BTX halted, almost immediately. > > The machine specs are: > AMD Turion 64x2 Mobile TL-58 1.9 Ghz 2x512K Lw cache > 2GB DDR2 > 160G HDD > > Short update. I built a release locally with yesterdays sources > 7.0-BETA4 with the same problem. > > Has anyone else seen this with Turion 64x2 or is it an Acer thing. We > should learn that cheap is often expensive. I just tried an amd64 7.0-BETA4 rescue filesystem CD on the same type of machine and saw the same loop of hex, etc. An i386 6.2-RELEASE CD similarly gives a BTX halted message, with or without ACPI or safe mode, etc. If I had to guess I would say it's the same messages in both cases (register dumps and so forth), but for some reason it loops on the amd64 boot. I saw somewhat similar freezes wtih various Linux boot CD's. In two cases (Kubuntu 7.04 and a BackTrack beta from today) doing a momentary press of the power button would actually allow the boot to continue briefly but then they would freeze again before getting anywhere useful. I was able to boot successfully using systemrescuecd-x86-0.4.3-beta4.iso. It probably has the newest Linux kernel of the lot I tried. I'm not sure if it does anything special in the initrd, etc., but it did come up and recognize the disks and the Ethernet, which is usually what I need in a recovery CD. I'll be leaving Windows Vista on this particular laptop for now, I just wanted to explore the disk layout and recovery partition before I did anything else (including accept the Windows Terms, etc) in case I ended up wanting to try a _different_ version of Windows on the thing. JN