Two minute pause at acpi.ko message on old HP laptop with 7.0-RC1

[Xn Nooby]

After reviewing what goes by on the screen, I think my acpi.ko message
is being displayed before *any* of the dmesg output.

For example, once the /boot/kernel/acpi.ko finally finishes, I see the
"Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project." quickly scroll by.

I was also thinking of waiting until 7.0 was finished, which I think
is later this month.



On Jan 9, 2008 12:26 AM, Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Xn Nooby wrote:
>
>  > The pause is right after the menu where I choose #5 Verbose Boot.  It
>  > hangs on the first message line of output which is:
>  >
>  >   /boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x52030...
>  >   \
>  >
>  > In the dmesg log it looks like this is where it hangs:
>  >
>  >   Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
>  >   Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>  >      The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
>  >   FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
>  >   FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 #0: Mon Dec 24 12:18:24 UTC 2007
>  >       root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>  >   Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc0d93000.
>  >   Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/acpi.ko" at 0xc0d931c4.
>
> Ok.  It's still not really clear to me whether the pause occurs during
> or after loading acpi.ko, but I'm suspecting afterwards, as there don't
> appear to be any ACPI issues logged.  I noticed nothing obvious in your
> verbose dmesg, but me noticing nothing says very little indeed ..
>
> Does this laptop have a floppy drive?  A serial port?  If so, they seem
> to not be being properly detected.  If not, perhaps they may exist on an
> optional docking station, which may explain the probe attempts?
>
> Unless somebody here spots something soon, as it's 7.0-RC1 I'd suggest
> reposting this to freebsd-stable@ providing the full HP model number.
>
> cheers, Ian
>

>  > The full verbose log is here:
>  > =========================================================
> [..]
>
>