Intel DP45SG motherboard problem (amd64)

[Alastair Hogge]

On Wed February 24 2010 22:46:29 John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 February 2010 5:40:31 pm Alastair Hogge wrote:
> > On Wed February 24 2010 00:14:00 John Baldwin wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 23 February 2010 8:51:04 am Alastair Hogge wrote:
> > > > > > Hello John,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > In regards to an old email thread:
> > > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2009-
> > > > >
> > > > > June/thread.html#5887
> > > > >
> > > > > > I've attached the i386 dmesg & "mptable device" from a
> > > > > > 9.0-CURRENT -r204168 system which still fails on booting an amd64
> > > > > > CD.
> > > > >
> > > > > You need to build a custom amd64 kernel which includes "device
> 
> mptable"
> 
> > > > > and use that.  You may need to set 'hint.acpi.0.disabled=1' as well
> > > > > to force ACPI to be disabled.
> > > >
> > > > OK, I've cross built an amd64 system and installed it on a spare HDD.
> > > > Once it booted I ran "mptable -verbose -dmesg -grope" Here is the
> 
> output:
> > > It appears that the new kernel works, yes?
> >
> > Yes
> >
> > > That should at least get you a
> > > working system now.
> >
> > Pretty exciting, however, it looks like that booting from an installation
> > CD is still problematic.
> 
> Yes, but it is really odd that you do not have any ACPI tables.  All 64-bit
> machines should have ACPI.
> 
> > > I have no idea why the system does not provide ACPI
> > > tables.  Is there a BIOS option to enable/disable ACPI perhaps?
> >
> > I can't find anything .
> 
> Can you save the output of 'acpidump -d -t' to a file and post the URL?  If
> the output is very short, you can just paste it inline into a reply.
#  acpidump -d -t
/*
  RSD PTR: OEM=INTEL, ACPI_Rev=2.0x (2)
        XSDT=0xcfd62e18, length=36, cksum=1
 */
acpidump: XSDT is corrupted