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Cc: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-8-BETA2 on MacBookPro5.5
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On Tuesday 21 July 2009 12:18 pm, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 July 2009 14:39:05 Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > FreeBSD-8-BETA2 does not boot on MacBookPro5.5. It Freezes during
> > kernel load. Is anyone working on this?
>
> Some more information:
>
> The kernel loading process gets to a point where ACPI is about to
> get initialized. I'm currently tracing a little bit and so far it
> ends up that AcpiEnable() in "contrib/dev/acpica/events/evxfevnt.c"
> never returns. Somewhere inside AcpiHwSetMode() something triggers
> a hardware condition, which I cannot see where ends up. Any lights
> go up?

Isn't it a new nVidia chipset system?  If so, it is a known problem, 
reported by rpaulo (CC'ed).  Unfortunately, I do not have hardware to 
debug it.  Any way, can you comment out the retry loop in the 
AcpiHwSetMode() from sys/contrib/dev/acpica/hardware/hwacpi.c and try 
again?

Jung-uk Kim