At this point, I've been through 4 AMD64 motherboards. Commonly, AE_BAD_CHARACTER stops ACPI (or apic?) from figuring out the system --- this has happened on 3 out of four boards. On this latest board, it can turn off APIC. If I do that, FreeBSD hangs after detecting the disks. The only "wrong" thing on the screen is module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (amr_linux, 0xffffffff805ebcc0, 0) error 6 I have tested boot CDs for amd64 from 6.0-RELEASE, 6.1-BETA1 and 6.1-BETA4. None have successfully booted on these boards. Strangely enough, i386 boots fine, APIC and all. Dave. -- ===========================================================================|David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================
On 4/5/06, David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> wrote:> At this point, I've been through 4 AMD64 motherboards. Commonly, > AE_BAD_CHARACTER stops ACPI (or apic?) from figuring out the system > --- this has happened on 3 out of four boards. On this latest board, > it can turn off APIC. If I do that, FreeBSD hangs after detecting the > disks. The only "wrong" thing on the screen is > > module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (amr_linux, 0xffffffff805ebcc0, 0) > error 6 > > I have tested boot CDs for amd64 from 6.0-RELEASE, 6.1-BETA1 and > 6.1-BETA4. None have successfully booted on these boards. > > Strangely enough, i386 boots fine, APIC and all. > > Dave.Whats the first thing anyone that might help you gonna need??? Motherboard details, chipset, memory, etc etc... :) I have two different amd64 systems, both have run FreeBSD 6 RELEASE, and one is running CURRENT, so its not the architecture in general thats broken. One last resort you might try, boot Failsafe, I've had that work when just turning off ACPI doesnt. Good luck,
On 4/5/06, David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> wrote:> At this point, I've been through 4 AMD64 motherboards. Commonly, > AE_BAD_CHARACTER stops ACPI (or apic?) from figuring out the system > --- this has happened on 3 out of four boards. On this latest board, > it can turn off APIC. If I do that, FreeBSD hangs after detecting the > disks. The only "wrong" thing on the screen is > > module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (amr_linux, 0xffffffff805ebcc0, 0) > error 6 > > I have tested boot CDs for amd64 from 6.0-RELEASE, 6.1-BETA1 and > 6.1-BETA4. None have successfully booted on these boards. >I had a strange problem booting amd64 on my HP Pavilion dv8xxx laptop with the 6.1 BETA4 CDs. If I didn't touch the keyboard, the boot process would crash when loading the kernel (my best guess). As the last thing I saw was the boot loader reading /boot/loader.conf (screen was unreadable after the crash). I tried to break into the boot loader, but instead of getting the boot loader prompt, the boot loader loaded the kernel and I was able to install FreeBSD/amd64. After it was installed, I haven't had any futher problems booting FreeBSD/amd64.> Strangely enough, i386 boots fine, APIC and all.I'm not sue if this will work: 1. install FreeBSD/i386 2. Copy the FreeBSD/amd64 kernel to /boot/kernel_amd64 3. reboot the system 4. break into the boot loader, and tell it to 'boot /boot/kernel_amd64' lf this boots the amd64 kernel, then it looks like the boot loader on the FreeBSD/amd64 CD's are bad. Scot -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised.