Pavilion BTX boot Problem

[John Baldwin]

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?
 
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John Baldwin