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From: Robert Peters <r2p2.gw@googlemail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Unable to install FreeBSD 9 on Acer Extensa 5220
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>Number:         166229
>Category:       amd64
>Synopsis:       [boot] Unable to install FreeBSD 9 on Acer Extensa 5220
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar 18 20:00:28 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Mon Mar 26 14:20:10 UTC 2012
>Originator:     Robert Peters
>Release:        9.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
It is an Acer Extens 5220
>Description:
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
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-amd64 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Mar 19 09:49:02 UTC 2012 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
reassign from misc/ 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=166229 

From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: amd64/166229: [boot] Unable to install FreeBSD 9 on Acer
 Extensa 5220
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:58:44 -0500

 ----- 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 -----

From: Robert Peters <r2p2.gw@googlemail.com>
To: bug-followup@freebsd.org, r2p2.gw@googlemail.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: amd64/166229: [boot] Unable to install FreeBSD 9 on Acer Extensa 5220
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:43:46 +0100

 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.

From: Robert Peters <r2p2.gw@googlemail.com>
To: bug-followup@freebsd.org, r2p2.gw@googlemail.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: amd64/166229: [boot] Unable to install FreeBSD 9 on Acer Extensa 5220
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:14:57 +0200

 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
>Unformatted:
