From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 14 18:49:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.wagsky.com (wildside.wagsky.com [64.220.148.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA3D637B404 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:49:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jeff@localhost) by smtp.wagsky.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g2F2nZr68026 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:49:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff+freebsd@wagsky.com) X-Authentication-Warning: wildside.wagsky.com: jeff owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:49:35 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Kletsky X-Sender: jeff@wildside.wagsky.com To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI autoload failed -- unable to install (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tried the "obvious" -- manually loading acpi.ko -- still fails On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Jeff Kletsky wrote: > Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:41:01 -0800 (PST) > From: Jeff Kletsky > To: current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: ACPI autoload failed -- unable to install > > Having been unable to confirm a complete and proper installation of > 5.0-CURRENT on my Sony PCG-SRX7/EP (similar to SRX77) laptop using the > 4.5-RELEASE installer, I have made a bootable CD from > 5.0-20020313-CURRENT, as well as floppies from 5.0-20020314-CURRENT. > Both exhibit the same set of symptoms. [...] > > Results in: > > ACPI autoload failed - no such file or directory > - > [dump followed] Failed workaround: 1) Create floppies using dd 2) Make another copy of the mfsroot floopy, mount /dev/fd0 /mnt rm -rf /mnt/* mkdir -p /mnt/boot/kernel copy acpi.ko to /mnt/boot/kernel ### Note that copying to root of floppy fails on load attempt ### ### This is inconsistent with the loader (8) manpage in 5.0 ### umount /mnt 3) Boot from kern.flp 4) Load mfsroot.flp 5) Interrupt boot process set hw.pcic.intr_path=1 set hw.pcic.irq=0 6) Remove mfsroot.flp, insert 'acpi.ko.flp' load acpi.ko ('boot'ing here causes the BTX to halt if the acpi.ko.flp is still in the drive) 7) Remove acpi.ko.flp, insert mfsroot.flp boot ...and watch the BTX halt Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message