From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 23 22:40:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB0361065672 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:40:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from agh@coolrhaug.com) Received: from mail5.qnetau.com (mail5.qnetau.com [202.146.209.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A658FC08 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:40:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 23058 invoked by uid 399); 23 Feb 2010 22:40:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO madcat.localnet) (203.59.9.21) by mail5.qnetau.com with ESMTPM; 23 Feb 2010 22:40:31 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 203.59.9.21 From: Alastair Hogge To: John Baldwin Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:40:31 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-STABLE; KDE/4.3.5; i386; ; ) References: <201002212231.12018.agh@coolrhaug.com> <201002232151.04595.agh@coolrhaug.com> <201002231114.00225.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201002231114.00225.jhb@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002240640.31039.agh@coolrhaug.com> Cc: kochetkov.andrew@gmail.com, Randy Chou , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel DP45SG motherboard problem (amd64) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: agh@coolrhaug.com List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:40:33 -0000 On Wed February 24 2010 00:14:00 John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday 23 February 2010 8:51:04 am Alastair Hogge wrote: > > > > Hello John, > > > > > > > > In regards to an old email thread: > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2009- > > > > > > June/thread.html#5887 > > > > > > > I've attached the i386 dmesg & "mptable device" from a 9.0-CURRENT > > > > -r204168 system which still fails on booting an amd64 CD. > > > > > > You need to build a custom amd64 kernel which includes "device mptable" > > > and use that. You may need to set 'hint.acpi.0.disabled=1' as well to > > > force ACPI to be disabled. > > > > OK, I've cross built an amd64 system and installed it on a spare HDD. > > Once it booted I ran "mptable -verbose -dmesg -grope" Here is the output: > > It appears that the new kernel works, yes? Yes > That should at least get you a > working system now. Pretty exciting, however, it looks like that booting from an installation CD is still problematic. > I have no idea why the system does not provide ACPI > tables. Is there a BIOS option to enable/disable ACPI perhaps? I can't find anything . Thanks