Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:10:36 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: George Mamalakis <mamalos@eng.auth.gr> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MSI GT 627 unsuccessful installation in 7-STABLE and 8-BETA4 Message-ID: <4AAA848C.4060707@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AAA7C71.8070708@eng.auth.gr> References: <4AAA7C71.8070708@eng.auth.gr>
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George Mamalakis wrote: > Dear all, > > My question should maybe have be sent to some other fbsd list; if so, > please someone instruct me where, and excuse me for my potential mistake. > > Now to my question: > > I just bought the MSI GT 627 Laptop, and I tried to install FreeBSD on > it. First I tried with 8-BETA4 amd, then with 8-BETA4 i386, and lastly > with 7.2 latest snapshot. All attempts have been unsuccessful, so I > tried NetBSD 5.0.1 to see if it would install, and it did! > > The kernel messages I got on all FOUR attempts (even in NetBSD, > although it worked finally) was something like that (in the beginning) > (NetBSD excerpt, since it is the only that booted, so I could > copy-paste it from dmesg, but FreeBSD gave the exact same Error > messages (a few numbers differ)): > > Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, > 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 > The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. > Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > > NetBSD 5.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul 30 00:08:07 UTC 2009 > > builds@b7.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-1-RELEASE/amd64/200907292356Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC > > total memory = 4095 MB > avail memory = 3954 MB > timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec > timecounter: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100 > SMBIOS rev. 2.5 @ 0x9a400 (45 entries) > Micro-Star International GT627 (Ver 1.000) > mainbus0 (root) > cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0: Intel 686-class, 2394MHz, id 0x1067a > cpu1 at mainbus0 apid 1: Intel 686-class, 2394MHz, id 0x1067a > cpu2 at mainbus0 apid 2: Intel 686-class, 2394MHz, id 0x1067a > cpu3 at mainbus0 apid 3: Intel 686-class, 2394MHz, id 0x1067a > ioapic0 at mainbus0 apid 4: pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins > acpi0 at mainbus0: Intel ACPICA 20080321 > acpi0: X/RSDT: OemId <MSI_NB,MEGABOOK,20090407>, AslId <MSFT,00000097> > ACPI Error (evregion-0427): No handler for Region [EC__] > (0xffff800007e20400) [EmbeddedControl] [20080321] > ACPI Error (exfldio-0390): Region EmbeddedControl(3) has no handler > [20080321] > ACPI Error (psparse-0627): Method parse/execution failed > [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC__.BAT1._STA] (Node 0xffff800007e23760), AE_NOT_EXIST > ACPI Error (uteval-0306): Method execution failed > [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC__.BAT1._STA] (Node 0xffff800007e23760), AE_NOT_EXIST > acpi0: SCI interrupting at int 9 > acpi0: fixed-feature power button present > timecounter: Timecounter "ACPI-Fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 > ACPI-Fast 24-bit timer > ACPI Error (evregion-0427): No handler for Region [EC__] > (0xffff800007e20400) [EmbeddedControl] [20080321] > ACPI Error (exfldio-0390): Region EmbeddedControl(3) has no handler > [20080321] > ACPI Error (psparse-0627): Method parse/execution failed > [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC__.BAT1._STA] (Node 0xffff800007e23760), AE_NOT_EXIST > ACPI Error (uteval-0306): Method execution failed > [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC__.BAT1._STA] (Node 0xffff800007e23760), AE_NOT_EXIST > WMI1 (pnp0c14) at acpi0 not configured > .... > > where fbsd differed, was somewhere after identifying ad4 (the disk, > which is WDC WD5000BEVT-22ZAT0 01.01A1), where it stated: > > acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x05 > run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config > run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for > xpt_config > > and after that it kept on repeating the last message, only increasing > the seconds to wait, until nothing more happened. > > Does anyone know if this is something that will be fixed soon? I guess > it has to do with MSI's ACPI or something like that. > > Thank you all for your interest. > > Regards, > > mamalos. > Is the laptop equipped with a firewire port? I have a few Gigabyte 8IPE1000-G motherboards at school that exhibit the exact same behaviour. (Using 7.X, have not tried with 8.0 yet). Although the motherboard does not in fact have a firewire chip soldered on, the BIOS presents a firewire device (in Windows it shows in the device manager as a non-working, unknown problem device) and I believe this confuses the FreeBSD boot sequence. Other people on the lists have also suggested disabling device sbp in a custom kernel configuration file (or even removing the entire firewire section if you don't need it). One possible first step would be to try disabling firewire in the BIOS (Sadly I don't have this option at all in my case) and see if the boot continues. If you install successfully you may then try building a custom kernel and re-enabling the BIOS option.
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