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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:46:27 +0100
From:      Buki <dev@null.cz>
To:        Simon Coggins <simon@uow.edu.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [Problems installing 5.0 RC2 on a Compaq Amarda M700 (acpi problems)]
Message-ID:  <20030114084627.GA22564@veverka.sh.cvut.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20030114031339.GC9185@uow.edu.au>
References:  <20030114031339.GC9185@uow.edu.au>

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On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:13:39PM +1100, Simon Coggins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having a problem installing 5.0 RC2 from cd onto my Compaq amarda M700
> laptop. I get errors from acpi on boot that look like:
> 
> ACPI-1287: *** Method execution failed. AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT
> 
> And a complaint about tempurature. Then it tries to mount the memory file
> system and hangs. If I use unset acpi_load it boots up, (lots of unknown pci
> problems) but it boots and will install.
> 
> After installation the system will not boot as it can't mount the root file
> system. I get :
> 
> setrootbyname failed
> ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp
> root mount failed: 6
> 
> If I again do a unset acpi_load, the system boots and I can log in.
> 
> I've tried set hw.acpi.ec.event_driven=1 and that didn't make a different.
> 
> I've captured acpidump and dmesg if you want to look at that.
> 
> http://chaotic.oz.org/other/bsd-5.0/erwin-5.0RC2-acpidump.txt
> http://chaotic.oz.org/other/bsd-5.0/erwin-5.0RC2-dmesg.txt
> 
> Any ideas? 

popular answer these days: disable ACPI

> 
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> 

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