From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 7 15:56:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F44A16A4DF for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 15:56:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1202B43D78 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 15:56:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (kline@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sage.thought.org (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k87FuaAx041904; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 08:56:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by sage.thought.org (8.13.6/8.13.1/Submit) id k87FuYk3041903; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 08:56:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 08:56:33 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20060907155633.GA41597@thought.org> References: <20060907023005.GA37358@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060907023005.GA37358@thought.org> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix for 20 years. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: acpi: bad read from port 0x71:: FreeBSD 6.1 /boot fault (solution) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:56:42 -0000 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