amd64/105514: FreeBSD/amd64 - Fails to boot on HP Pavilion dv8000 Laptop

Sun Oct 7 15:14:53 PDT 2007

Scot Hetzel wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR amd64/105514; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel at gmail.com>
> To: "Remko Lodder" <remko at freebsd.org>
> Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: amd64/105514: FreeBSD/amd64 - Fails to boot on HP Pavilion dv8000 Laptop
> Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 14:38:59 -0500
>
>  On 9/24/07, Remko Lodder <remko at freebsd.org> wrote:
>  > Does this occur with recent 7-CURRENT ISO images as well?
>  > Does this occur with other images then the AMD64 one? e.g.
>  > the I386 one?
>  > 
>  > Would it be possible for you to see what is going on there?
>  > 
>  I finally had a chance to retest, and so far FreeBSD is failing to boot with the i386 ISO also.  I have tested several versions:
>  
>  6.1-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso
>  6.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
>  7.0-20070928-SNAP-i386-bootonly.iso
>  
>  And they all give me the same error:
>  
>  corrupt symbol?
>  <loader menu>
>  /boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x53a80 data=0x23a0+0x184c syms=[0x4+0x8590+0x4+0xb030]
>  loading required module 'pci'
>  ACPI auto load failed - no such file or directory
>  
>  int=00000006  err=00000000  efl=00010086  eip=00459b43
>  eax=00459bc9  ebx=00459640  ecx=a0000075  edx=000488a0
>  esi=00066254  edi=0005bf7c  ebp=00094484  esp=0009e440
>  cs=0008  ds=0010  es=0010  fs=0010  gs=0010  ss=0010
>  cs:eip= f0 e8 57 ff ff ff 89 c2-83 f8 ff 75 d8 83 c7 34
>               81 ff e8 38 b8 c0 75 c3-8b 15 b8 0d bb c0 89 d0
>  ss:esp= 40 9b 45 00 90 95 00 00-00 00 00 80 75 00 00 a0
>                00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 a0 88 04 00
>  BTX Halted
>  
>  This was the output of the 7.0-20070928-SNAP-i386-bootonly CD.
>  
>  I still get the crash with the FreeBSD/amd64 CD, but the output is unreadable due to it constantly scrolling on the screen.  If I hold hold down the space bar as detailed in the PR, it will boot into sysinstall (7.0-20070928-SNAP-amd64-bootonly.iso)
>  
>  I used the 7.0 SNAPs from:
>  http://snapshots.us.freebsd.org/snapshots/
>  
>  Scot
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>   
I've had similar failure to boot on my HP Pavillion dv9000 (dv9420us).  
I can get it to boot reliability by pressing <spacebar> just after the 
BIOS splash screen disappears, and then press <ENTER> at the boot slice 
prompt.

jmc