Re: [Qemu-devel] SeaBIOS error with Juniper FreeBSD kernel

[Brandon Bennett]

> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Kevin O'Connor <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Should a kernel fail during boot, I'd suspect it doesn't like one of
>> the apm/pcibios callbacks, or it doesn't like one of the
>> smbios/mptable/acpi tables.  You could try compiling the SeaBIOS code
>> (see http://seabios.org/Download ) and increasing the debugging by
>> modifying src/config.h.  Specifically, you could increase
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_LEVEL, and set DEBUG_HDL_pcibios32 and DEBUG_HDL_apm to
>> 1.  Also, you could try disabling some of the features to see if that
>> prevents the fault (eg, disabling CONFIG_ACPI / CONFIG_SMBIOS /
>> CONFIG_MPTABLE).
>

I have narrowed it down to SMBIOS.  If I disable CONFIG_SMBIOS the
image boots up fine.

-Brandon