Bug 68469

Summary: All recent versions of FreeBSD fail to boot on newer Compaq/HP laptops
Product: Base System Reporter: Jeff Connelly <shellreef+freebsd>
Component: i386Assignee: freebsd-i386 (Nobody) <i386>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Jeff Connelly 2004-06-29 08:40:12 UTC 
FreeBSD 5, 4, and 3, and some versions of 2, load the kernel but power off before booting. Affects newer HP/Compaq laptops. Full report at

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=amd64/67745

I'm reposting this bug under i386 because it is not an AMD64 problem. Affects Pentium 4 laptops as well as AMD64's under i386 mode. Compaq Presario R3000Z series, including the X1000, R3030, R3140US, and HP Pavilion zv5000z. A person more knowledgeable than I posted some technical details about this problem at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2004-June/001636.html .

My apologies if this sort of reposting violates gnats-etiquette. My intentions are good: this bug hasn't gotten the attention it deserves categorized as amd64, and many Compaq Presario users want to run FreeBSD.

Thank you,
-Jeff Connelly

Fix: 

None known. (Workaround: NetBSD or Linux.)
How-To-Repeat: Boot from any recent FreeBSD or FreeSBIE CD on an affected laptop.
Comment 1 Neil Short 2004-07-01 04:21:58 UTC 
Here's some more information as I have the same exact
behavior with an HP Pavilion zv5000z.
(This data was also submitted to the freebsd-mobile
mailing list.)

This computer came with a free upgrade of one of them
universal flash digital media card readers. I'm
wondering if there is some conflict there.
Anyway, I tried booting OpenBSD 3.5 on this box and it
had trouble too; but it gave some useful information
as to the "why." I'll transcribe it here (by hand.)


cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP Processor 3000+
("AuthenticAMD" 686-class) 1.60 GHz
cpu0:
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2
real mem = .....
avail mem = ....
using ... buffers/memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(c2) BIOS, date 04/30/04,
BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd750
pcibios0 at bios0: rev. 2.1 @ 0fd750/0x860
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev. 1.0 @ 0xfdf10/208
(11 entries)
pcibios0: no compatable PCI ICU found: ICU vendor
0x10de product 0x00d0
pcibios0: Warning, unable to fix up PCI interrupt
routing
pcibios0: PCI bus #4 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0x0000/0xfc00 0xd0000/0x4000!
0xd4000/0x1000


Hope this helps.

note also Jeff Connelly's comments on
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=amd64/67745
and note that another similar report is at
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/66401




		
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Comment 2 shellreef 2004-07-01 20:55:21 UTC 
Jung-uk Kim submitted a patch here:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2004-July/001661.html
Haven't tried it yet but it should work.

Someone please close this report and mark it as a duplicate of amd64/67745.

Thanks,
-Jeff
Comment 3 Simon L. B. Nielsen freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-07-01 21:51:02 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Dupe of amd64/67745 (which is really not amd64 specific).