Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:59:58 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis <gregb@scls.lib.wi.us> To: Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new 6.1 install will not boot Message-ID: <44ECA5AE.9030709@scls.lib.wi.us> In-Reply-To: <10608231830.AA15944@pluto.rain.com> References: <10608231830.AA15944@pluto.rain.com>
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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) <gregb at scls.lib.wi.us>, (608) 266-6348
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