Unable to boot.

Assar

Assar

Hi!
I have used freeBSD a couple of years in my home firewall based on pfSense. This is working very well until latest release. The latest functional release of freeBSD is 7.0.
When upgrading to latest pfSense 1.2.3 which is based on freeBSD 7.2 the boot process is halted when this is on screen:

Code: 
fdc0: <floppy...
fdc0: [FILTER]
fd0: <1440-KB...
sio0: <16550A-compa...
sio0: type 16550A
sio0: [FILTER]
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
smist0: <SpeedStep SMI> on cpu0
- Here it just stops reporting and power off is the only option.

Is this a hardware issue related to my old HP Vectra VLi8?
Is there a way around this obstacle.

Tested to disable the ACPI with no success.
I've also tried the alpha release of the upcoming 2.0 version of pfSense based on freeBSD 8.0 with the same result.

// Assar
 
Assar said:
Hi!
I have used freeBSD a couple of years in my home firewall based on pfSense. This is working very well until latest release. The latest functional release of freeBSD is 7.0.
When upgrading to latest pfSense 1.2.3 which is based on freeBSD 7.2 the boot process is halted when this is on screen:

Code: 
fdc0: <floppy...
fdc0: [FILTER]
fd0: <1440-KB...
sio0: <16550A-compa...
sio0: type 16550A
sio0: [FILTER]
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
smist0: <SpeedStep SMI> on cpu0
- Here it just stops reporting and power off is the only option.

Is this a hardware issue related to my old HP Vectra VLi8?
Is there a way around this obstacle.

Tested to disable the ACPI with no success.
I've also tried the alpha release of the upcoming 2.0 version of pfSense based on freeBSD 8.0 with the same result.

// Assar
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I realize that this thread is 15 years old, however, the issue that you encountered is *NOT* pfSense-specific and continues to plague HP Vectra VLi8 owners as of the FreeBSD 14.1 release.

The hang will occur even with the final VLi8 BIOS release, version HZ.01.10.

The workaround is to not disable acpi(4) entirely, but rather just the cpu sub-device. When the installation media boots, escape to the boot loader and the issue the following commands:
set debug.acpi.disabled="cpu"
boot

The system will not enable the Intel SpeedStep functionality and boot successfully. To make this change permanent, add the debug setting to /boot/loader.conf.
 
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