Perry Hutchison wrote:
Well, you're at least as far as having the disk sliced up in a
workable way, or the bootstrap wouldn't start at all. This jumps
out as not only being bad, but happening right before meltdown.
acpi: bad RSDP checksum (210)
I suspect it's a red herring, since I was getting that message at
that point when everything was working (with the 10GB drive).
That could be. I thought it might be a symptom of the BIOS version
being the root of the problem, and of course once that's foo all
bets are off.
After a CD boot, is there a reasonably simple way to have sysinstall
reinstall just the kernel -- or the package containing it -- without
starting completely over?
Yeah, see what Derek wrote. Never done that, myself, or even heard
of the kernel not getting installed.
The BIOS version is A08. Dunno if it is the latest, but I do have
ACPI turned off in the BIOS. I guess it is arguably a BIOS bug for
an RSDP to exist when ACPI is disabled, and/or a FreeBSD bug to be
complaining about ACPI when it is disabled.
"Whose bug?" is often largely a matter of semantics when two pieces
of software fight. It's likely that for historical hardware, only
FreeBSD developers could fix the conflict at this point, but that
seems unlikely unless (after you get things otherwise working)
you're willing to do extensive trial and error, debugging
operations, etc.
You're probably right about it being a red herring for your
immediate boot problem, but ACPI issues do cause all kinds of
trouble, so keep an eye on it.
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