misc/166229: Unable to install FreeBSD 9 on Acer Extensa 5220

[Robert Peters]

>Number:         166229
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Unable to install FreeBSD 9 on Acer Extensa 5220
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar 18 20:00:28 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Robert Peters
>Release:        9.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
It is an Acer Extens 5220
>Description:
There is an forum thread which includes an jpg image of the problem: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=30571

Long story short:
I wanted to install FreeBSD 9.0 on my complete empty Acer Extensa 5220.
While booting from the live cd it stops after printing (verbose mode enabled):
battery0: battery initialization done, tried 1 times 


Disabling ACPI resulted in an stack trace and reboot.
Removing the battery while boot just changes the last output.


Then I installed 8.2 which was working and updating to 9. The boot from hdd did stop then again with the same output.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to boot the live cd on an acer extensa 5220
>Fix:


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