Spontaneous reboots on Intel i5 and FreeBSD 9.0

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:26:33 +0200
Marin Atanasov Nikolov <dnaeon at gmail.com> wrote:

> The only error I'm able to find in /var/log/messages during boot-time is
> this:
> 
> ---
> Jan 18 11:03:19 tsunami kernel: acpi0: <_ASUS_ Notebook> on motherboard
> Jan 18 11:03:19 tsunami kernel: ACPI Error: [RAMB] Namespace lookup
> failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20110527/psargs-392)
> Jan 18 11:03:19 tsunami kernel: ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, Could not
> execute arguments for [RAMW] (Region) (20110527/nsinit-380)
> ---
> 
> Not sure if this is the root cause for this, cause I've seen this error
> before and at that time there were no reboots happening (months ago). Also
> I find it strange that it says Notebook above, as this is a desktop
> machine...

FWIW, the part above is a red herring / false alarm; it is caused by a bad / incorrect implementation of acpi on your machine.
Blame those who wrote the bios ...
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Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at getmail.no>