Pavilion BTX boot Problem

[Baris Gerze]

John,
Please look at, you can find previos fix for 7.0-stable brunch...


http://www.nabble.com/HP-Pavilion-dv2000-laptop-wont-boot-off-install-cd-td18479606.html


Thx



On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Baris Gerze <barisgerze at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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