Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:52:05 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems booting FreeBSD on a Compaq Pavillion V6107au Message-ID: <200703240852.06127.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070324120157.GA847@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20070317232611.GA858@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <200703211020.07979.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070324120157.GA847@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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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
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