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
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----- 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 -----
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.
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
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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.