On Wednesday 16 June 2010 7:14:09 am Lystopad Olexandr wrote: > > Hi! > > I have FreeBSD 7.3-STABLE on Biostar 945GC-M4 motherboard. > When I boot with custom kernel it fail to boot on ACPI. FreeBSD box > do not respond to any key. But it successfully boots with button 2 > from boot menu (without acpi). > > Then I try to boot with GENERIC. Success! Ok, I try comment > out one-by-one devices in GENERIC, rebuild and install kernel, > and try to boot. My custom kernel boot fine until I comment > out mpt device in kernel, but it successfully boots without > acpi (button 2 on boot menu). I have no mpt devices in > this box. When I insert "device mpt" back to the kernel it boots > successfully. > > Why acpi depends on device mpt? Why this server do not boot without > this device?
How does it fail to boot in the non-mpt case? Does it hang, does it panic? If it hangs, can you break into DDB and capture the output of 'ps' and a stack trace? (A serial console is probably useful for this.) -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
