From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 24 12:02:00 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 1F09A16A400 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:02:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-3-125.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.3.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F27513C455 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:01:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2OC1vtx000890; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:01:58 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l2OC1v2I000889; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:01:57 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:01:57 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20070324120157.GA847@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20070317232611.GA858@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <200703211020.07979.jhb@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200703211020.07979.jhb@freebsd.org> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:02:00 -0000 --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2007-Mar-21 10:20:07 -0400, John Baldwin 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=3D1' 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=3D0x70:0x9717 >> (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= =20 >gotten this while probing PnPBIOS devices since 5.0. I've tried to debug = it=20 >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. --=20 Peter Jeremy --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGBRM1/opHv/APuIcRAux6AJ42Jw6Nj0ltgqlKHcUepuAMrvhnvgCgn377 6+Qwsd0tChkmP3u2Q3oYRQc= =0FHN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt--