Re: FreeBSD image hangs during boot

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien-rXXEIb44qovR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>]

Laurent Vivier a écrit :
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> That's not something new, but I never seen the problem mentioned here.
>>> FreeBSD does not work on KVM, approximately since the lapic merge.
>>>
>>> However, that does not seem related to lapic, as using -no-kvm-irqchip
>>> does not help. With -no-kvm I get a page fault in kernel mode, while the
>>> normal QEMU (0.9.0 or CVS) does not have this problem.
>>>
>>> This can be easily reproduced with the latest installation CD:
>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2/6.2-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso
>>>
>>>   
>> It complains about the RSDT checksum.  Running with -no-acpi works 
>> around the problem (it gets to some country selection screen).  So it 
>> looks like the ACPI tables are messed up.
> 
> I should have the same kind of problem with debian-31r0a-amd64-netinst.iso which
> hangs on: " Loading module 'ide-disk' for 'Linux ATA DISK'..."
> 
> and "-no-acpi" resolves this too.
> 

This is most probably the same problem on FreeBSD, as it has destroyed
my disk image. I don't know yet if I can repair it or not.

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