Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:14:34 -0500 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't install FreeBSD Current or 7.0 on AMD Turion 64x2 Mobile TL-58 1.9 Ghz in an Acer 5520-5679 Message-ID: <200712212114.34354.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20071221195221.18565pkwdcogtr0g@intranet.encontacto.net> References: <20071221174245.482324qxgn5ynudc@intranet.encontacto.net> <200712211925.31112.lists@jnielsen.net> <20071221195221.18565pkwdcogtr0g@intranet.encontacto.net>
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On Friday 21 December 2007, eculp wrote: > Quoting John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>: > > On Friday 21 December 2007, eculp wrote: > >> We have an almost new Acer 5520-5679 in the office that we intended to > >> partition and install 8.0-CURRENT-200712-amd64 but much to my > >> surprise accessing the cdrom it went into an immediate, unreadable > >> loop of hex numbers that can only be stoped by powering down. I next > >> tried 7.0BETA-4 standard (no amd64) and I can get to the Welcome menu > >> but with all options end up with a BTX halted, almost immediately. > >> > >> The machine specs are: > >> AMD Turion 64x2 Mobile TL-58 1.9 Ghz 2x512K Lw cache > >> 2GB DDR2 > >> 160G HDD > >> > >> Short update. I built a release locally with yesterdays sources > >> 7.0-BETA4 with the same problem. > >> > >> Has anyone else seen this with Turion 64x2 or is it an Acer thing. We > >> should learn that cheap is often expensive. > > > > I just tried an amd64 7.0-BETA4 rescue filesystem CD on the same type > > of machine and saw the same loop of hex, etc. An i386 6.2-RELEASE CD > > similarly gives a BTX halted message, with or without ACPI or safe > > mode, etc. If I had to guess I would say it's the same messages in both > > cases (register dumps and so forth), but for some reason it loops on > > the amd64 boot. > > > > I saw somewhat similar freezes wtih various Linux boot CD's. In two > > cases (Kubuntu 7.04 and a BackTrack beta from today) doing a momentary > > press of the power button would actually allow the boot to continue > > briefly but then they would freeze again before getting anywhere > > useful. I was able to boot successfully using > > systemrescuecd-x86-0.4.3-beta4.iso. It probably has the newest Linux > > kernel of the lot I tried. I'm not sure if it does anything special in > > the initrd, etc., but it did come up and recognize the disks and the > > Ethernet, which is usually what I need in a recovery CD. > > > > I'll be leaving Windows Vista on this particular laptop for now, I just > > wanted to explore the disk layout and recovery partition before I did > > anything else (including accept the Windows Terms, etc) in case I ended > > up wanting to try a _different_ version of Windows on the thing. > > Hi John, > > Thanks for the report. As they say missery loves company;) Somehow > it would seem that we chose the wrong cpu if practically nothing will > boot it except windows. I'm stuck with vista that I've found much > worse than XP, for a while too I guess. > > I'm still in hopes that someone has a trick up their sleeve. There > seem to be a lot of laptops that use the Turion 64x2 mobile. I don't think the problem is with the CPU per se. It seems to be something to do with ACPI and/or PCI resource allocation or scanning on this particular chipset (or other hardware combinations).. JN
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