Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:03:20 -0800 From: "John Merryweather Cooper" <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: "eculp" <eculp@encontacto.net>, "John Nielsen" <lists@jnielsen.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't install FreeBSD Current or 7.0 on AMD Turion 64x2 MobileTL-58 1.9 Ghz in an Acer 5520-5679 Message-ID: <131B2D73811E4FDD8E06819CC35DDF99@jcooperPC> In-Reply-To: <20071221195221.18565pkwdcogtr0g@intranet.encontacto.net> References: <20071221174245.482324qxgn5ynudc@intranet.encontacto.net><200712211925.31112.lists@jnielsen.net> <20071221195221.18565pkwdcogtr0g@intranet.encontacto.net>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "eculp" <eculp@encontacto.net> To: "John Nielsen" <lists@jnielsen.net> Cc: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 5:52 PM Subject: Re: Can't install FreeBSD Current or 7.0 on AMD Turion 64x2 MobileTL-58 1.9 Ghz in an Acer 5520-5679 Quoting John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>: > 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. > Hi John, Thanks for the report. As they say missery loves company;) Somehow it would seem that we chose the wrong cpu if practically nothing will boot it except windows. I'm stuck with vista that I've found much worse than XP, for a while too I guess. I'm still in hopes that someone has a trick up their sleeve. There seem to be a lot of laptops that use the Turion 64x2 mobile. Thanks again, ed _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" The trick is to start pressing <spacebar> when the BIOS splash appears. This should bring you the the boot slice prompt, where you just press <enter> and the boot continues normally. Without this trick, my HP Pavilion dv9420us (also a Turion machine) gives identical symptoms to yours. jmc
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