Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 07:38:34 -0500 From: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: "David Gilbert" <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Frustrating inability to boot amd64 Message-ID: <790a9fff0604060538m1dc0e253pd33988a78b650ac0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <17460.22467.330090.949775@canoe.dclg.ca> References: <17460.22467.330090.949775@canoe.dclg.ca>
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On 4/5/06, David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> wrote: > At this point, I've been through 4 AMD64 motherboards. Commonly, > AE_BAD_CHARACTER stops ACPI (or apic?) from figuring out the system > --- this has happened on 3 out of four boards. On this latest board, > it can turn off APIC. If I do that, FreeBSD hangs after detecting the > disks. The only "wrong" thing on the screen is > > module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (amr_linux, 0xffffffff805ebcc0, 0) > error 6 > > I have tested boot CDs for amd64 from 6.0-RELEASE, 6.1-BETA1 and > 6.1-BETA4. None have successfully booted on these boards. > I had a strange problem booting amd64 on my HP Pavilion dv8xxx laptop with the 6.1 BETA4 CDs. If I didn't touch the keyboard, the boot process would crash when loading the kernel (my best guess). As the last thing I saw was the boot loader reading /boot/loader.conf (screen was unreadable after the crash). I tried to break into the boot loader, but instead of getting the boot loader prompt, the boot loader loaded the kernel and I was able to install FreeBSD/amd64. After it was installed, I haven't had any futher problems booting FreeBSD/a= md64. > Strangely enough, i386 boots fine, APIC and all. I'm not sue if this will work: 1. install FreeBSD/i386 2. Copy the FreeBSD/amd64 kernel to /boot/kernel_amd64 3. reboot the system 4. break into the boot loader, and tell it to 'boot /boot/kernel_amd64' lf this boots the amd64 kernel, then it looks like the boot loader on the FreeBSD/amd64 CD's are bad. Scot -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised.
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