From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 16 13:33:16 2004 Return-Path: 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 BF3E916A4CE for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:33:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from etaq.com (mail.etaq.com [66.80.150.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F3343D1D for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:33:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wayne@etaq.com) Received: by etaq.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id E67F95C5D; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:33:54 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:33:54 -0600 From: Wayne M Barnes To: Arjan van Leeuwen Message-ID: <20040316213354.GA7671@etaq.com> References: <20040315105752.A27183@klentaq.com> <200403152134.53018.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403152134.53018.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 05:04:03 -0800 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2 is dangerous to drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:33:16 -0000 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 -- Wayne M Barnes wayne@etaq.com fax: (314) 754-9556