Re: FreeBSD image hangs during boot

Avi Kivity
2007-10-02T16:27:13Z

Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Avi Kivity a écrit :
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> The RSDT checksum problem is not new, but it was harmless on previous
> versions (like kvm-37).
>
> Using -no-acpi, I am able to boot the machine with -no-kvm, but the
> guest still hang with -no-acpi and with -no-kvm-irqchip or lapic
> enabled. At least on AMD64, I haven't tested yet on an Intel machine.
>
>

Looks like there is a compiler problem that's interfering here. A bios
compiled on one machine will boot fine on Intel, but on other machines
(unfortunately my work machines) will not.

There is a separate issue with -no-acpi on AMD. Is there some version
where -no-acpi worked on AMD?

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