From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 14 7:17:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6BA837B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:17:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from webmail.speakeasy.net (webmail2.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7700243F43 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:17:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from franimal@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 12272 invoked by uid 99); 14 Jan 2003 15:17:53 -0000 Message-ID: <20030114151753.12271.qmail@webmail.speakeasy.net> Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:17:53 -0800 From: Francis Barnhart To: Simon Coggins Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [simon@uow.edu.au: Problems installing 5.0 RC2 on a Compaq Amarda M700 (acpi problems)] X-Sender: franimal@speakeasy.net X-Originating-Ip: [nat2.gendyn.com] X-Mailer: Speakeasy Network Webmail 2.1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Did you try adding hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" to /boot/device.hints http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=device.hints&sektion=5&manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current On 14 Jan 2003, Simon Coggins wrote: > Sent this to questions@ got no response. > Hoping someone in here can help me. > > > ----- Forwarded message from Simon Coggins > ----- > > Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:56:29 +1100 From: > Simon Coggins To: > questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems > installing 5.0 RC2 on a Compaq Amarda M700 > (acpi problems) Organisation: University of > Wollongong (http://www.uow.edu.au/) > > 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-5.0- > RC2-acpidump.txt http://chaotic.oz.org/other/- > bsd-5.0/erwin-5.0RC2-dmesg.txt > > Any ideas? > > -- > Simon Coggins (SAGE-AU Member) Email: > simon@uow.edu.au Network and System Management > Officer Phone: +61-2-4221-3775 Information > Technology Systems (ITS) Mobile: 0408 115861 > University of Wollongong, 2522, Australia Fax: > +61-2-4229-1985 > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > Simon Coggins (SAGE-AU Member) Email: > simon@uow.edu.au Network and System Management > Officer Phone: +61-2-4221-3775 Information > Technology Systems (ITS) Mobile: 0408 115861 > University of Wollongong, 2522, Australia Fax: > +61-2-4229-1985 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to > majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe > freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message