Problems with a Acer Aspire

[Astrodog]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:43:02 +0100, Kent Palmkvist <kentp at isy.liu.se> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Here is a fix how to get the Acer Aspire 1522 WLMi to boot amd64 FreeBSD
> (tested with 5.3 and 6-current-snap from February 2005).
> 
> Problem:
> The boot process hangs after loading the kernel, but before getting any
> output from the kernel boot.
> In 5.3 this means that I get the daemon figure with the 7 choices, and
> independent of which of the
> choices I make, the loader indicator will make a couple of turns and then
> stop. This has been tested
> with all the different versions of the amd64 FreeBSD that I have been able
> to find (5.3-RELEASE,
> 5.3-SNAP, 6-Current-SNAP etc.) dating from December 2004 to February 2005.
> Also tested the one
> by Kelly Black that solved a problem with the Compaq Presario R3000z
> (http://blackk.union.edu/~black/freebsd/) but with same disapointing results.
> 
> Solution:
> Disable the Legacy USB Support in the bios setup (at least available in
> v1.09 of the BIOS). It boots
> correctly into the installer for 6-current-snap from February 2005 (do not
> need to select any special
> boot options). For 5.3-RELEASE, it needs the ACPI to be disabled, otherwise
> it will get a panic on
> "vm_fault: fault on nofault entry" after cardbus detection. If ACPI is
> disabled, 5.3-RELEASE will boot
> nicely into the installer.
> 
> good luck!
> 
> /Kent
> 
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Tried the R3000Z line of patches? Might relate.