Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:01:57 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems booting FreeBSD on a Compaq Pavillion V6107au Message-ID: <20070324120157.GA847@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200703211020.07979.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <20070317232611.GA858@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <200703211020.07979.jhb@freebsd.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 2007-Mar-21 10:20:07 -0400, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: >On Saturday 17 March 2007 07:26:11 pm Peter Jeremy wrote: >> 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' No difference. I've also tried the latest 7-current snapshot with the same behaviour. >> 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. :( By disabling ACPI, I have managed to install 6.2/amd64 and it seems to run. I thought I'd tried this combination before. I might try -current with the latest ACPI fixes and see if there's any difference. -- Peter Jeremy [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGBRM1/opHv/APuIcRAux6AJ42Jw6Nj0ltgqlKHcUepuAMrvhnvgCgn377 6+Qwsd0tChkmP3u2Q3oYRQc= =0FHN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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