From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 22 08:32:04 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 763FA16A41B for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:32:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john_m_cooper@yahoo.com) Received: from smtp109.plus.mail.sp1.yahoo.com (smtp109.plus.mail.sp1.yahoo.com [69.147.95.72]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6028713C447 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:32:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john_m_cooper@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 2267 invoked from network); 22 Dec 2007 08:05:23 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:From:To:Cc:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Priority:X-MSMail-Priority:X-Mailer:X-MimeOLE; b=pSnzVYIpBGvaXnkSZv+Xb1jkzTz21CQMOyHDmjt9aDJtFuPDgpVQvVEccB4UiK1BBpsff/sFBLB7jdeSy04q6FiL7eAu5UlnZ3TRnLvlHT3NalCFR0GCG/xKx8ga3DTbNdVeIgkWoUvOMVN6OZmyC6LrDpxgSsyUm6vzZkJY3jA= ; Received: from unknown (HELO jcooperPC) (john_m_cooper@134.121.244.74 with login) by smtp109.plus.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Dec 2007 08:05:23 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: f1cM.h8VM1mygPR92eJW8KyHrTrzcUcbP2U4FYztOu8l8CJaWMKiZPEQ5x4NcTs7qheu6oCjwPCDgemPtuZvfm6zCxyNBfRAiZOeSLOp2S8rFfTZ8fs3iTwN5Xdl Message-ID: <131B2D73811E4FDD8E06819CC35DDF99@jcooperPC> From: "John Merryweather Cooper" To: "eculp" , "John Nielsen" References: <20071221174245.482324qxgn5ynudc@intranet.encontacto.net><200712211925.31112.lists@jnielsen.net> <20071221195221.18565pkwdcogtr0g@intranet.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <20071221195221.18565pkwdcogtr0g@intranet.encontacto.net> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:03:20 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16480 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6000.16545 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 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 08:32:04 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "eculp" To: "John Nielsen" Cc: 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 : > 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 when the BIOS splash appears. This should bring you the the boot slice prompt, where you just press and the boot continues normally. Without this trick, my HP Pavilion dv9420us (also a Turion machine) gives identical symptoms to yours. jmc