Bug 166229 - [boot] Unable to install FreeBSD 9 on Acer Extensa 5220
Summary: [boot] Unable to install FreeBSD 9 on Acer Extensa 5220
Status: Closed Overcome By Events
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: amd64 (show other bugs)
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: Mark Linimon
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Reported: 2012-03-18 20:00 UTC by Robert Peters
Modified: 2018-05-31 15:43 UTC (History)
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Description Robert Peters 2012-03-18 20:00:28 UTC
There is an forum thread which includes an jpg image of the problem: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=30571

Long story short:
I wanted to install FreeBSD 9.0 on my complete empty Acer Extensa 5220.
While booting from the live cd it stops after printing (verbose mode enabled):
battery0: battery initialization done, tried 1 times 


Disabling ACPI resulted in an stack trace and reboot.
Removing the battery while boot just changes the last output.


Then I installed 8.2 which was working and updating to 9. The boot from
hdd did stop then again with the same output.

How-To-Repeat: Try to boot the live cd on an acer extensa 5220
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2012-03-19 09:49:02 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-amd64

reassign from misc/
Comment 2 Mark Linimon 2012-03-19 18:58:44 UTC
----- Forwarded message from John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> -----

Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:09:34 -0400
From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64/166229: [boot] Unable to install FreeBSD 9 on Acer
	Extensa 5220
User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-CBSD-20110714-p10; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; )

Can you drop into DDB and use 'ps' and possibly 'tr 0' to see what the boot is 
waiting on?

-- 
John Baldwin

----- End forwarded message -----
Comment 3 Robert Peters 2012-03-20 08:43:46 UTC
Is DDB enabled in the live cd by default? If not it could be
complicated to compile the kernel without getting it to boot.
Never did this DDb thing before but I will give it a try.
Comment 4 Robert Peters 2012-03-26 15:14:57 UTC
It seems that I am unable to do that. Documentation does not describe
well enough for me, how to enter the ddb. And there is still the open
question if the ddb is enabled in the live cd kernel. If not it would
be hard to enable it without booting it. I will try all what is needed
if it is documented well enough for a potato (me).

best regards
Robert
Comment 5 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-12-31 07:59:26 UTC
For bugs matching the following criteria:

Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags.

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Comment 6 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2018-05-31 15:43:00 UTC
Unfortunately this PR was never addressed before these versions of FreeBSD went out of support.  Sorry.

If this is still a problem, please open a new PR.  Thanks.