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. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
