From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 24 19:59:21 2007 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> 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 4ABE316A400 for <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:59:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7AA513C459 for <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:59:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from zion.baldwin.cx (zion.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.7]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2OJxH3m095574; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:59:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:52:05 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <20070317232611.GA858@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <200703211020.07979.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070324120157.GA847@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20070324120157.GA847@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703240852.06127.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.1]); Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:59:19 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.3/2921/Sat Mar 24 08:52:12 2007 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12 autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on server.baldwin.cx 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 <freebsd-mobile.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile>, <mailto:freebsd-mobile-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-mobile-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile>, <mailto:freebsd-mobile-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:59:21 -0000 On Saturday 24 March 2007 08:01, Peter Jeremy wrote: > 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. Ok. > >> 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. That's because amd64 doesn't do the PnPBIOS stuff. Can you get boot -v dmesg's from amd64 with ACPI on and ACPI off? -- John Baldwin