Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:47:46 -0800 From: Josh Makler <spiroth10@inbox.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Cannot get freebsd up and running... Message-ID: <E2BEEEBD408.00000224spiroth10@inbox.com>
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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:
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Code:
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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:
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Code:
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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.
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