From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 1 07:24:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AFD316A4CE for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 07:24:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E15EC43D54 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 07:24:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 875425312; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 09:24:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 3D7D15311; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 09:24:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 1A1BEB85E; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 09:24:29 +0200 (CEST) To: "Jason C. Wells" References: <61D1B42DE744CC8F770302FB@[192.168.1.16]> From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 09:24:29 +0200 In-Reply-To: <61D1B42DE744CC8F770302FB@[192.168.1.16]> (Jason C. Wells's message of "Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:40:35 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.64 cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI Flakiness / Loader X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 07:24:37 -0000 "Jason C. Wells" writes: > It's been a couple years since I have been active on the lists. I > have been itching to get OpenAFS running on FreeBSD so I dove in with > 5.2.1. I have never had a fresh binary install of FreeBSD in the > -stable or -current branch fail to boot until just now. I hope you realize that 5.2.1 is a nine months old development preview. > My request is this. Please don't enable flaky functionality by > default. ACPI is openly stated as flaky and not uniformly implemented > in the handbook. If only things were so simple! The plain fact is that most computers manufactured today, especially laptops and high-end servers, won't work properly without ACPI. As for your troubles with disabling ACPI: the procedure to do so is clearly described in the documentation, and on a stock 5.2.1 install, it's as simple as pressing 2 at the boot menu. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no