From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 14 17:53:03 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D3CE16A407 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:53:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spiroth10@inbox.com) Received: from WM33.inbox.com (wm33.inbox.com [208.50.6.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4341E13C441 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:53:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spiroth10@inbox.com) Received: from inbox.com (127.0.0.1:25) by inbox.com with [InBox.Com SMTP Server] id <702140000922.WM33> for from ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 8:47:46 AM -0800 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:47:46 -0800 Message-ID: From: Josh Makler To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Importance: High X-Priority: 1 (Highest) X-Mailer: INBOX.COM Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IWM-ACU: 0emspVoONkpTL5t5Kt_KbkXGHP9b2Ih_Oi6uCKky568XnB6LGJ-jMlAOSMxD tQr5xAE63emeyI-VGML1Y0yWLNVeEMIIpWo0ThPj9c7EH8032Ik7E2Qsx7cW ze78wnZXk8vfZF9gnT_Y@ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Cannot get freebsd up and running... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:53:03 -0000 <=21DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC =22-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN=22> I first posted this on a FreeBSD help forum, where I was quickly = redirected here (I guess this is a serious issue...) I'm going to = copy/paste my post here: first off my hardware is: AMD 3800+ 1GB RAM NviDia 7900 GT OC gfx card DVDRW/CDRW drive ??? Hard drive with windows XP on it (came with the PC...) SeaGate ST340810A Hard drive as slave (This one has FreeBSD on it) I added on to an EMachines T6536 to get this setup... I cannot find any info on my motherboard at all... I think its an American Megatrends board though. OK, this problem is not a simple one to diagnose, and probably near = impossible to fix. when I began to install FreeBSD (Actually PC-BSD, but it is 100% the same aside from the installer pretty much...) It gave me errors about ACPI (which my PC here does support...) I got through the installer by disabling ACPI, but it doesn't work that way when I try to start it up. these errors were: =09 Code: =09 ACPI-0397: *** Error: = NsSearchAndEnter: Bad character in ACPI name:43005350 ACPI-0397: = *** Error: looking up=5B0x430005350=5D (NON-ASCII) in namespace, = AE_BAD_CHARACTER ACPI-0204: *** Error: AcpiLoadTables: could not = load namespace: AE_BAD_CHARACTER ACPI-0213: *** Error: = AcpiLoadTables: Could not load tables: AE_BAD_CHARACTER ACPI: table = load failed: AE_BAD_CHARACTER MADT: ACPI Startup failed with = AE_BAD_CHARACTER the other errors are not so easy to describe. They move rapidly down the screen, and repeat over and over again until I pull the plug. these errors occur when I try to start the system after disabling ACPI: =09 Code: =09 these are for da0 = through da3 (I have no idea what they are at all...) all the info I = can get from them is that they look somewhat like this, although = I'm missing a lot and have no way to get the exact messages: SCSI = Status error (I have no SCSI drives=21) (da=23: umass = -sim:0:0:0:3) Not Ready csi-0,aa,55,40 asc: 3a, 0 there is a = -> pointing to d6 after all of them. Windows works fine on this PC, and I had a working linux installation prviously as well (although I did get some funky errors too, but it just ignored then and moved on without trouble...) So I'm pretty sure it's some sort of issue BSD is having with my PC, and not some issue with my processor. please help, I'd really like to use BSD, and I'm willing to do whatever I can to work through this. I Don't mean to sound like a newbie, and I'm not, I've used other types of Unix for years, it's just this is my first *real* run in with BSD, and this is a pretty new computer I'm using... not to mention my first encounter with those errors. This = is probably ACPI related, but as the second set of errors imply, even when = I disable ACPI I am still unable to start the system. thanks in = advance. _________________________________________________________________ Free Online Photosharing - = Share your photos online with your friends and family=21 Visit [1]http://www.inbox.com/photosh= aring to find out more=21 References 1. 3D=22http://www.inbox.com/photosharing=22