Hello, My previous firewall needs a replacement so I got hold of an ACER aspire 9300 laptop. For a number of days I've tried installing the 4.9 (i386) release. Unfortunatly, most things I try fail so I'm looking for some help/advice.
Upon booting from the 4.9 release CD I usually (9 out of 10) get a panic screen. I was lucky enough to install 4.9 on the laptop but when booting from the HD, I also usually get a panic screen. Sometimes I can boot and run OpenBSD without trouble but that's the exception, not the rule. In order to exclude HW problems I ran memtest86 for 11 hours, did a thorough check on the disk that only revealed 2 reallocated sectors and installed a number of linux distros (ubuntu, mint, clearos, ...). Every distro worked out of the box. Then I asked for some advice on daemonforums (1) and 2 people helped me. First advice was to try out the -current or AMD release. Second advice was to upgrade the BIOS of the laptop. In order to upgrade the laptop I've reinstalled XP and was able to flash the BIOS. I then retried all 3 three OpenBSD variants. No change in behaviour. When I boot 4.9 i386 a get a panic screen shortly after the 'boot>' prompt. Doesn't matter whether I boot from CD or HD. When I boot 5.0-current (8 of sept) I don't get a panic screen. But the install halts and nothing happens. Last line I see is: entry point at 0x20012 and that's it. The AMD release gets to the 'boot>' prompt. After a short wait it shows a spinning cursor and 1 number (in the other releases it seems like calculating and then displays something like '5965416+946088 [61+227984+215947]=0x703e08' ). Here I only get the first number. Then it crashes without a panic screen and the system reboots automatically. I've included the dmesg output at the end and for those interested there's an attachment with a picture from the panic screens on the daemonforums (1). Any help greatly appreciated Marc 1: http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=6312 Dmesg output: OpenBSD 4.9 (GENERIC) #671: Wed Mar 2 07:09:00 MST 2011 [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 2.01 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SSE3,CX16 real mem = 938102784 (894MB) avail mem = 912625664 (870MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 09/13/06, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfda64, SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0x37f6b000 (27 entries) bios0: vendor Phoenix Technologies LTD version "V1.06" date 09/13/2006 bios0: Acer Aspire 9300 acpi0 at bios0: rev 0 acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP MCFG APIC BOOT SSDT acpi0: wakeup devices LID0(S3) SLPB(S3) USB0(S3) USB2(S3) MAC0(S5) AZA0(S3) P2P0(S5) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpimcfg0 at acpi0 addr 0xe0000000, bus 0-4 acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: apic clock running at 200MHz ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 1 pa 0xfec00000, version 11, 24 pins acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 4 (P2P0) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 3 (XVR0) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 2 (XVR1) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus 1 (XVR2) acpiec0 at acpi0 acpicpu0 at acpi0: C3, C2, PSS acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature 96 degC acpitz1 at acpi0: critical temperature 111 degC acpibtn0 at acpi0: LID0 acpibtn1 at acpi0: SLPB acpibtn2 at acpi0: PWRB acpibat0 at acpi0: BAT0 model "BODEN43" serial 10780 type LION oem "594e4f53" acpiac0 at acpi0: AC unit online acpivideo0 at acpi0: VGA_ acpivout0 at acpivideo0: CRT_ acpivout1 at acpivideo0: LCD_ acpivout2 at acpivideo0: TVO_ acpivideo1 at acpi0: VGA_ acpivout3 at acpivideo1: CRT_ acpivout4 at acpivideo1: LCD_ acpivout5 at acpivideo1: TVO_ bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xf200 0xcf800/0x1800 cpu0: PowerNow! K8 2010 MHz: speeds: 2000 1800 1600 800 MHz pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) "NVIDIA C51 Host" rev 0xa2 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 not configured "NVIDIA C51 Memory" rev 0xa2 at pci0 dev 0 function 1 not configured "NVIDIA C51 Memory" rev 0xa2 at pci0 dev 0 function 2 not configured "NVIDIA C51 Memory" rev 0xa2 at pci0 dev 0 function 3 not configured "NVIDIA C51 Memory" rev 0xa2 at pci0 dev 0 function 4 not configured "NVIDIA C51 Memory" rev 0xa2 at pci0 dev 0 function 5 not configured "NVIDIA C51 Memory" rev 0xa2 at pci0 dev 0 function 6 not configured "NVIDIA C51 Memory" rev 0xa2 at pci0 dev 0 function 7 not configured ppb0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "NVIDIA C51 PCIE" rev 0xa1 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 ppb1 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 "NVIDIA C51 PCIE" rev 0xa1 pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 ppb2 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 "NVIDIA C51 PCIE" rev 0xa1 pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 vga1 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 "NVIDIA GeForce Go 6100" rev 0xa2 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) "NVIDIA MCP51 Host" rev 0xa2 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 not configured pcib0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "NVIDIA MCP51 ISA" rev 0xa3 nviic0 at pci0 dev 10 function 1 "NVIDIA MCP51 SMBus" rev 0xa3 iic0 at nviic0 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 512MB DDR2 SDRAM non-parity PC2-4200CL5 SO-DIMM spdmem1 at iic0 addr 0x51: 512MB DDR2 SDRAM non-parity PC2-4200CL5 SO-DIMM iic1 at nviic0 "NVIDIA MCP51 PMU" rev 0xa3 at pci0 dev 10 function 3 not configured ohci0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "NVIDIA MCP51 USB" rev 0xa3: apic 1 int 11 (irq 11), version 1.0, legacy support ehci0 at pci0 dev 11 function 1 "NVIDIA MCP51 USB" rev 0xa3: apic 1 int 7 (irq 7) usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "NVIDIA EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 pciide0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 "NVIDIA MCP51 IDE" rev 0xf1: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC WD1200UE-22KVT0> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 114473MB, 234441648 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <TSSTcorp, CD/DVDW TS-L632D, ac00> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 ppb3 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 "NVIDIA MCP51 PCI-PCI" rev 0xa2 pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 ath0 at pci4 dev 5 function 0 "Atheros AR2413" rev 0x01: apic 1 int 10 (irq 10) ath0: AR2413 7.8 phy 4.5 rf 5.6, WOR3W, address 00:16:cf:6d:b2:dd cbb0 at pci4 dev 6 function 0 "TI PCIXX12 CardBus" rev 0x00: apic 1 int 11 (irq 10) "TI PCIXX12 Multimedia Card Reader" rev 0x00 at pci4 dev 6 function 2 not configured cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0 cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 5 device 0 cacheline 0x10, lattimer 0x20 pcmcia0 at cardslot0 azalia0 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 "NVIDIA MCP51 HD Audio" rev 0xa2: apic 1 int 16 (irq 10) azalia0: codecs: Realtek ALC883, Conexant/0x2bfa, using Realtek ALC883 audio0 at azalia0 nfe0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 "NVIDIA MCP51 LAN" rev 0xa3: apic 1 int 11 (irq 11), address 00:16:d3:4a:49:b3 rgephy0 at nfe0 phy 1: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 2 pchb0 at pci0 dev 24 function 0 "AMD AMD64 0Fh HyperTransport" rev 0x00 pchb1 at pci0 dev 24 function 1 "AMD AMD64 0Fh Address Map" rev 0x00 pchb2 at pci0 dev 24 function 2 "AMD AMD64 0Fh DRAM Cfg" rev 0x00 kate0 at pci0 dev 24 function 3 "AMD AMD64 0Fh Misc Cfg" rev 0x00: core rev DH-F2 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 usb1 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "NVIDIA OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support ugen0 at uhub0 port 6 "Acer Labs USB2.0 Camera" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 2 vscsi0 at root scsibus1 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
