Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:25:30 -0500 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 Message-ID: <200712211925.31112.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20071221174245.482324qxgn5ynudc@intranet.encontacto.net> References: <20071221174245.482324qxgn5ynudc@intranet.encontacto.net>
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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
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