Re: Pavilion BTX boot Problem

John Baldwin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 04:54:08 pm Baris Gerze wrote:
> Image files attached.
> 
> I dont know the exact fix date for FREEBSD 7.0 - Stable brunch for the boot
> problem
> 
> What can cause the problem ?
> with / without acpi result is the same..

Err, not having 'device pci' in your kernel is not likely to give a working 
kernel in general.  Are you booting from a 7.1 kernel you built or from a 7.1 
install CD?  Can you try booting from GENERIC?

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:24 PM, John Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 15 September 2008 08:45:55 pm Baris Gerze wrote:
> > > Two or three months ago I tried to boot from FBSD 7.0-STABLE install 
CD ,
> > it
> > > boots
> > > but both 7.0-RELEASE and 7.1-BETA BTX loader gives me dump of some
> > > characters
> > > such as
> > > 00 12 12 00
> > > 12 12  00 00 etc..
> >
> > I would need the screen dump (a photo can work) to debug this at all.
> >
> > > all tests were made with i386 version of fbsd.
> > > laptop is amd64 pavilion.
> > >
> > > when booting ubuntu linux it also says something like PCI BUG found in
> > the
> > > first screen but then boots normally
> > >
> > > you could trace the error by comparing 7.0 stable with 7.1 ( i386 ) FBSD
> > > install iso images..
> >
> > I don't have the hardware, so I can't debug this using that method.  Can
> > you
> > narrow down approximately when 7.x broke?
> >
> > --
> > John Baldwin
> >
> 



-- 
John Baldwin
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