From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 4 01:02:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A942516A41F for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:02:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cracauer@schlepper.zs64.net) Received: from schlepper.zs64.net (schlepper.zs64.net [212.12.50.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2296443D45 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:02:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cracauer@schlepper.zs64.net) Received: from schlepper.zs64.net (schlepper [212.12.50.230]) by schlepper.zs64.net (8.13.3/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j8412ftB016262 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 03:02:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from cracauer@schlepper.zs64.net) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by schlepper.zs64.net (8.13.3/8.12.9/Submit) id j8412fOr016261 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 21:02:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cracauer) Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 21:02:41 -0400 From: Martin Cracauer To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050903210241.A16146@cons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Subject: Load ACPI when turned off in loader.con (also: no ACPI panics in ata probe in 7-current) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 01:02:43 -0000 I just turned ACPI off in loader.conf. Unfortunately it turns out that 7-current on my dual Opteron (Armima HDAMB) panics in ata probe when ACPI is off (bug report to follow). That means I cannot even get into single user mode. I need to load ACPI from the loader prompt before booting the kernel. I tried "load acpi" which does not report an error, but neither a loaded module. Booting the kernel afterwards leads to the same panic. Next I tried to unload the kernel first, but a "load acpi" just loads the kernel module, not the acpi module. I assume this is due to me having it turned off in loader.conf. What is the right procedure to do this? Can I tell the bootloader to ignore loader.conf? Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/