Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:33:54 -0600 From: Wayne M Barnes <wayne@etaq.com> To: Arjan van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@piwebs.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2 is dangerous to drive Message-ID: <20040316213354.GA7671@etaq.com> In-Reply-To: <200403152134.53018.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> References: <20040315105752.A27183@klentaq.com> <200403152134.53018.avleeuwen@piwebs.com>
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Dear Arjan,
Thank you for your advice, which has given me hope, but how to I
implement it?
Here is my guess for what to edit into the kernel config file:
nodevice apic
nodevice smp
Is this correct? I really don't see any lines about apic
anywhere in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/
[But I am on 5.1 now. Does something about apic appear in 5.2?]
I surely had no SMP enabled, anyway, since I only have one processor.
I do have an NVIDIA nForce2 series motherboard, an ASUS A7N8X, so
you perceived that correctly.
Why should I want to get ACPI running again?
How can I get "without ACPI" to be the default boot behaviour?
Would that be to edit something in loader.conf?
Thanks for any more advice,
- Wayne
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:34:50PM +0100, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote:
> On Monday 15 March 2004 17:57, Wayne Barnes wrote:
> > Dear Level 5ers,
> >
> > I got a 5.2.1 CD in the mail, so I thought I should upgrade
> > from my older 5.0-CURRENT which had been working very well
> > for months.
> >
> > Big mistake.
>
> > ...
>
> Not that big a mistake. Sounds like you have an nforce2-board. If you search
> the archives, you'll find that you can install 5.2 (or 5.2.1) on this board
> by disabling ACPI during the install (option 2 in the boot menu). Once you're
> up and running, build a kernel without apic and smp (that's apic, not ACPI)
> to get ACPI support working again.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Arjan
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Wayne M Barnes
wayne@etaq.com fax: (314) 754-9556
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