From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 14 10: 5:27 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 684D837B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:05:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from webmail.speakeasy.net (webmail3.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B7E43F18 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:05:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from franimal@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 20341 invoked by uid 99); 14 Jan 2003 18:05:22 -0000 Message-ID: <20030114180522.20340.qmail@webmail.speakeasy.net> Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:05:22 -0800 From: Francis Barnhart To: Nate Lawson Cc: Coercitas Temet'Nosce , FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: Problem with RC3 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 I wonder if it might be even better to disable it by default. Nothing turns people off like an OS that doesn't install. On 14 Jan 2003, Nate Lawson wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Coercitas Temet'Nosce > wrote: > > I'm trying to install the new RC3 release on > > a laptop Toshiba SP6000. > > > > Problem is that Boot kernel from install CD > > (mini) hangs whith this message ... acpi0: > > on motherboard ACPI-0625: *** > > Info: GPE Block0 defined as GPE0 to GPE63 > > Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00f01d0 > > acpi0: power button is handled as a fixed > > feature programming model. Timecounter > > "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz can't fetch > > resources for \_SB_.PCI0.FNC0.PRT_ - > > AE_BAD_DATA acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at > > 3.579545MHz> port 0xee08-0xee0b on acpi0 > > acpi_cpu0: on acpi0 pcib0: > Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 > > pci0: on pcib0 agp0: > Generic host to PCI bridge> mem > > 0xf0000000-0xf3ffffff at device .0 o, pci0 > > > > and system hangs forever at this point. Not > > being really expert in boot, I don't know > > how to manage this. It was already the case > > with FreeBSD-RC2 but not with DP1, something > > happened inbetween. > > At boot prompt, "unset acpi_load". > > Has anyone documented this option? It should > be in the release notes in flashing red as > nearly all install complaints seem to be > related to poor ACPI data. > > -Nate > > > 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