Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 08:56:33 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: acpi: bad read from port 0x71:: FreeBSD 6.1 /boot fault (solution) Message-ID: <20060907155633.GA41597@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20060907023005.GA37358@thought.org> References: <20060907023005.GA37358@thought.org>
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On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 07:30:05PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > Does anybody know what to tweak in /boot/* to stop > "bad read/write" messages from/to the BIOS? [At least > so fare as I can tell? > > I've triied everything suggested on Google; rebooted, no-joy. > The BIOS is reset (AFAICT) to their fail-safe defaults, but > every 10 sec these errs get printed to stderr. > > I'd like to know what ... and *why* with 6.1, just out of the > blue! > I'm replying to my own post for anyone who runs into this problem and finds this in an archive. The solution is to take a clue from /boot/loader.help and drop hint.acpi.0.disable="1" into /boot/device.hints. reboot, and errors should disappear. Why this began with FBSD 6.1? No idea. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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