Pavilion BTX boot Problem

[Baris Gerze]

I also submitted this to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=127337

thx for your concern



On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Baris Gerze <barisgerze at gmail.com> 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..
>
> 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..
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 9:12 PM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On Friday 12 September 2008 07:38:52 pm Baris Gerze wrote:
>> > I am using AMD 64 bit pavilion laptop. ( dv6xxxx series )
>> >
>> > with amd64bit edition it works ( boot and install )
>> >
>> > but with i386 edition i cannot boot coz gives me BTX error
>> >
>> > I both tried with ACPI enabled and disabled but resulting same error..
>> >
>> > The same error was fixed with FreeBSD 7.0 Stable brunch
>> >
>> > so why it still continue with 7.1 again?
>>
>> Do you have more details on how it was broken and then fixed in 7.0?
>>
>> --
>> John Baldwin
>>
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