From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 4 01:40:42 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 04D9916A41F for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:40:42 +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 6721043D46 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:40:41 +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 j841edLw016686; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 03:40:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from cracauer@schlepper.zs64.net) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by schlepper.zs64.net (8.13.3/8.12.9/Submit) id j841edT2016685; Sat, 3 Sep 2005 21:40:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cracauer) Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 21:40:39 -0400 From: Martin Cracauer To: Pascal Hofstee Message-ID: <20050903214039.A16603@cons.org> References: <20050903210241.A16146@cons.org> <1125796318.32208.3.camel@synergy.charterpipeline.net.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1125796318.32208.3.camel@synergy.charterpipeline.net.lan>; from caelian@gmail.com on Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 06:11:57PM -0700 Cc: Martin Cracauer , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 01:40:42 -0000 Pascal Hofstee wrote on Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 06:11:57PM -0700: > On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 21:02 -0400, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > 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? > > Have you tried setting hint.acpi.0.disabled=0 at the boot loader > prompt ? I assume you mean `set hint.acpi.0.disabled=0`. Yes, I tried, and `show` shows it to be zero. It doesn't work either. Setting this, unloading everything and then loading acpi shows the same behavior as before. `load acpi` loads the kernel, no acpi, and a subsequent boot panics. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/