bug

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: <suira at rambler.ru>
> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 17:31:37 +0400
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> 	Hi!
> I"ve a problem at the first step of installation FreeBSD 6.1 on my "Acer 
> Aspire 1670".
> I install FreeBSD 6.1 from CD set(CD1:FreeBSD_Install and 
> CD2:FreeBSD_Packages)
> I insert CD1,make first boot device CDrom in BIOS,and reboot.
> Then I can see:
> _______________________________________________________________________________
>   CD Loader 1.2
> 
>   Building the boot loader arguments
>   Looking up /BOOT/LOADER...Found
>   Relocating the loader and theBTX
>   Starting the BTX loader
> 
>   BTX loader 1.00  BTX version is 1.01
>   Consoles: internal video/keyboard
>   BIOS CD is cd0
>   BIOS drive C: is disk0
>   BIOS 638kB/522688kB available memory
> 
>   FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader,Revision 1.1
>  (root at opus.cse.buffalo.edu,Sun May 7 03:20:03 UTC 2006)
>  Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
>  /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x4c8c74 data=0x98120+0x4f08c 
> syms=[0x4+0x649f0+0x4+0x7c102]
>  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------next 
> screen was:
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
> Welcome to FreeBSD!
>  1.Boot FreeBSD[default]
>  2.Boot FreeBSD with ACPI disabled
>  3.Boot FreeBSD in Safemode
>  4.Boot FreeBSD in single user mode
>  5.Boot FreeBSD with verbose logging
>  6.Escape to loader promt
>  7.Reboot
> 
> 
>  Select option,[Enter] for default
>  or [Space] to pause timer 10
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> I chose 1. and saw next:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> /boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x42ed4/ data=0x2280+0x10f0 
> syms=[0x4+0x7ad0+0x4+0xa709]
> /
> 
> That's all, installation process was terminated.
> I  tried 2.,3.,4.,5.,6. items and had the same result.I too tried 
> ,choosing 6.,to do next : 
> unset acpi_load[Enter]; boot [Enter].And it was in vain.
> Please!Help if you can fix the problem. Shamil. mailto:suira at rambler.ru

This is just a guess, but I think the console device may be switching to
a different connection. This is the point where FreeBSD kernel takes
over from the loader and, if the loader talks to one device and the
kernel to another, it will seem to hang.

If the console switched to a different device, this is exactly what you
will see. Try connecting something to whichever device you are NOT using
and see if it becomes active at this point.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634