Re: Problems booting FreeBSD on a Compaq Pavillion V6107au

On 2007-Mar-21 10:20:07 -0400, John Baldwin <[email protected]> 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.

>> 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.

I might try -current with the latest ACPI fixes and see if there's
any difference.

-- 
Peter Jeremy

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