From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 11 17:32:55 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3729610656B7 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:32:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sonic2000gr@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f208.google.com (mail-ew0-f208.google.com [209.85.219.208]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B675A8FC15 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:32:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so1303961ewy.36 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:32:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/P4loXarH8ma/Ip6sJUX2P//uZIqm4lUf5xiIg7jJsg=; b=bf+hTu2kdL94rEA1hoUBaMIrom3ceFfbXrt0QMz7hHgEWmZLTF/xl+QpZy4tlc9JHu vu9SweXKZm5Ajfz4ml8IDeIuQxQs7hHbOqJw74Tve+MQJVokdtDEBeyq0b3WoyVwGNpE PwOCqFPuWZzEAvFBOMkP0nyoW9lqvh2Tl9b4M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=qfEV9YukdWONS7peinEpbp25wfuH0zc/umjWf/03cGpDIPgeWS92thI4nu8BvHIjf2 OAa1Mmj1hS7iw76r3smJoBYcEe5m36rEMFm2SJMuTEwLlEdZ8u6XNwFZC12C0athOybK vE1eJg/w5BQzyzI4lEKTCTdTK1kIoZ5xogIog= Received: by 10.210.9.7 with SMTP id 7mr3562900ebi.5.1252689047883; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:10:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pulstar.local (athedsl-4490856.home.otenet.gr [94.71.82.112]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm2609575eye.8.2009.09.11.10.10.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:10:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AAA848C.4060707@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:10:36 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: George Mamalakis References: <4AAA7C71.8070708@eng.auth.gr> In-Reply-To: <4AAA7C71.8070708@eng.auth.gr> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MSI GT 627 unsuccessful installation in 7-STABLE and 8-BETA4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:32:55 -0000 George Mamalakis wrote: > Dear all, > > My question should maybe have be sent to some other fbsd list; if so, > please someone instruct me where, and excuse me for my potential mistake. > > Now to my question: > > I just bought the MSI GT 627 Laptop, and I tried to install FreeBSD on > it. First I tried with 8-BETA4 amd, then with 8-BETA4 i386, and lastly > with 7.2 latest snapshot. All attempts have been unsuccessful, so I > tried NetBSD 5.0.1 to see if it would install, and it did! > > The kernel messages I got on all FOUR attempts (even in NetBSD, > although it worked finally) was something like that (in the beginning) > (NetBSD excerpt, since it is the only that booted, so I could > copy-paste it from dmesg, but FreeBSD gave the exact same Error > messages (a few numbers differ)): > > Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, > 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 > The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. > Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > > NetBSD 5.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul 30 00:08:07 UTC 2009 > > builds@b7.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-1-RELEASE/amd64/200907292356Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-0-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC > > total memory = 4095 MB > avail memory = 3954 MB > timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec > timecounter: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100 > SMBIOS rev. 2.5 @ 0x9a400 (45 entries) > Micro-Star International GT627 (Ver 1.000) > mainbus0 (root) > cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0: Intel 686-class, 2394MHz, id 0x1067a > cpu1 at mainbus0 apid 1: Intel 686-class, 2394MHz, id 0x1067a > cpu2 at mainbus0 apid 2: Intel 686-class, 2394MHz, id 0x1067a > cpu3 at mainbus0 apid 3: Intel 686-class, 2394MHz, id 0x1067a > ioapic0 at mainbus0 apid 4: pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins > acpi0 at mainbus0: Intel ACPICA 20080321 > acpi0: X/RSDT: OemId , AslId > ACPI Error (evregion-0427): No handler for Region [EC__] > (0xffff800007e20400) [EmbeddedControl] [20080321] > ACPI Error (exfldio-0390): Region EmbeddedControl(3) has no handler > [20080321] > ACPI Error (psparse-0627): Method parse/execution failed > [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC__.BAT1._STA] (Node 0xffff800007e23760), AE_NOT_EXIST > ACPI Error (uteval-0306): Method execution failed > [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC__.BAT1._STA] (Node 0xffff800007e23760), AE_NOT_EXIST > acpi0: SCI interrupting at int 9 > acpi0: fixed-feature power button present > timecounter: Timecounter "ACPI-Fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 > ACPI-Fast 24-bit timer > ACPI Error (evregion-0427): No handler for Region [EC__] > (0xffff800007e20400) [EmbeddedControl] [20080321] > ACPI Error (exfldio-0390): Region EmbeddedControl(3) has no handler > [20080321] > ACPI Error (psparse-0627): Method parse/execution failed > [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC__.BAT1._STA] (Node 0xffff800007e23760), AE_NOT_EXIST > ACPI Error (uteval-0306): Method execution failed > [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC__.BAT1._STA] (Node 0xffff800007e23760), AE_NOT_EXIST > WMI1 (pnp0c14) at acpi0 not configured > .... > > where fbsd differed, was somewhere after identifying ad4 (the disk, > which is WDC WD5000BEVT-22ZAT0 01.01A1), where it stated: > > acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x05 > run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config > run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for > xpt_config > > and after that it kept on repeating the last message, only increasing > the seconds to wait, until nothing more happened. > > Does anyone know if this is something that will be fixed soon? I guess > it has to do with MSI's ACPI or something like that. > > Thank you all for your interest. > > Regards, > > mamalos. > Is the laptop equipped with a firewire port? I have a few Gigabyte 8IPE1000-G motherboards at school that exhibit the exact same behaviour. (Using 7.X, have not tried with 8.0 yet). Although the motherboard does not in fact have a firewire chip soldered on, the BIOS presents a firewire device (in Windows it shows in the device manager as a non-working, unknown problem device) and I believe this confuses the FreeBSD boot sequence. Other people on the lists have also suggested disabling device sbp in a custom kernel configuration file (or even removing the entire firewire section if you don't need it). One possible first step would be to try disabling firewire in the BIOS (Sadly I don't have this option at all in my case) and see if the boot continues. If you install successfully you may then try building a custom kernel and re-enabling the BIOS option.