From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 21:09:05 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6576F16A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:09:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0768943D3F for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:09:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j1BL92wk002542; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:09:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:09:02 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Atle Veka Message-ID: <20050211210902.GB68406@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050211122205.X12600@fincher.users.accretive-networks.net> <20050211205950.GA68406@dan.emsphone.com> <20050211130221.M12600@fincher.users.accretive-networks.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050211130221.M12600@fincher.users.accretive-networks.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.7i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE: Where is the blacklist referenced on the install disks? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:09:05 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 11), Atle Veka said: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Feb 11), Atle Veka said: > > > ASUS p2b-d motherboards are blacklisted on 5.3-RELEASE and refuse > > > to install. Where is this blacklist located, I need to manually > > > remove that block? > > > > > > The ASUS p2b-d motherboards are quite common, we have probably > > > 100 or so left of them and have at one point had over 400. Seems > > > really strange to me to exclude a popular motherboard on acpi > > > issues... > > > > The blacklist is on BIOS versions that have broken ACPI support. > > All it does it disable the ACPI module. Your system should still > > boot fine without it. > > This is during a new install and after loading all floppies it > actually halts the boot process and notifies of an automatic reboot > [in 15 seconds]. Paste in the few lines before the automatic reboot message. You can also force the acpi module to load even if it was blacklisted by entering set hint.acpi.0.disabled=0 at the loader prompt before the kernel boots. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com