Pavilion BTX boot Problem

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 17 September 2008 03:53:01 pm Baris Gerze 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...

Erm, the install CD's are using GENERIC.  I have no idea why it thinks your 
kernel doesn't include 'device pci'.  I think you must have a corrupted CD or 
some such.

> 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
> >
> 



-- 
John Baldwin