From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 21 16:13:32 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E10E16A41A for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:13:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD6E213C480 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:13:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.corp.yahoo.com (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2LFkdcv055977; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:46:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:20:07 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <20070317232611.GA858@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20070317232611.GA858@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703211020.07979.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:46:41 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.3/2892/Wed Mar 21 05:40:09 2007 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: Problems booting FreeBSD on a Compaq Pavillion V6107au X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:13:32 -0000 On Saturday 17 March 2007 07:26:11 pm Peter Jeremy wrote: > I would like to install FreeBSD on a V6107 (Turion 64x2) but have run > into various problems. It is based around an nVIDIA nFORCE chipset - > the MPtable reports as "nVIDIA C51-MCP51". > > Booting 6.2-RELEASE (either i386 or amd64) hangs after the probe > message for ad4 (the SATA HDD). Verbose mode shows it gets as far > as reporting "GEOM: new disk ad4". The scroll lock key works but > scroll up/down is very dodgy - pressing the button several times > sometimes makes the screen scroll (generally several pages). > Similar behaviour occurs on 6.0-RELEASE and 6.1-RELEASE. Try disabling SMP via 'kern.smp.disabled=1' > Disabling kbdmux in the loader has no effect on 6.1 or 6.2 - it > still hangs. > > Disabling ACPI causes 6.1 and 6.2 to panic. In the case of 6.2, > I got a "page fault in kernel mode" at 0xdc4e with ip=0x70:0x9717 > (which looks like 16-bit protected mode to me). vm86 mode in the BIOS actually. I'm not sure why we get this, but we have gotten this while probing PnPBIOS devices since 5.0. I've tried to debug it several times with no success. :( -- John Baldwin