Pavilion BTX boot Problem

Baris Gerze barisgerze at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 19:53:04 UTC 2008


I am booting from FreeBSD 7.1 - Beta Install CD...
how can I boot from GENERIC.. I do wanna fresh install from install boot
cd...


On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:18 PM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 16 September 2008 04:54:08 pm Baris Gerze wrote:
> > Image files attached.
> >
> > I dont know the exact fix date for FREEBSD 7.0 - Stable brunch for the
> boot
> > problem
> >
> > What can cause the problem ?
> > with / without acpi result is the same..
>
> Err, not having 'device pci' in your kernel is not likely to give a working
> kernel in general.  Are you booting from a 7.1 kernel you built or from a
> 7.1
> install CD?  Can you try booting from GENERIC?
>
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:24 PM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > > 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?
> > >
> > > --
> > > John Baldwin
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> John Baldwin
>


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