From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 23 19:00:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99CB216A4DA for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:00:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gregb@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21AF043D46 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:59:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gregb@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k7NIxwA5023174; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:59:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from gregb@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <44ECA5AE.9030709@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:59:58 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Perry Hutchison References: <10608231830.AA15944@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <10608231830.AA15944@pluto.rain.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new 6.1 install will not boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:00:02 -0000 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. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348