Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:29:44 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jonathan Horne" <jhorne@dfwlp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd on a newer pc Message-ID: <55254.24.1.139.244.1150514984.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <8F95D008-1650-4EA1-AEBB-F2C6863BCC07@shire.net> References: <44125.167.246.36.14.1150464410.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> <53137.24.1.139.244.1150499368.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> <8F95D008-1650-4EA1-AEBB-F2C6863BCC07@shire.net>
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> > On Jun 16, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: >> >> well, i figured out that if at the boot selection screen, if i choose >> option 2 "boot with acpi enabled", i can then give 'shutdown -p >> now' and >> the system will then power off properly. easy enough... >> >> but how do i set option 2 as my default boot selection? i dont see >> anything about this in the handbook. > > > My experience has been that once you boot that way once it becomes > the default. Play around with it > > Chad > > --- > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC > Your Web App and Email hosting provider > chad at shire.net > > > i dont think thats the behavior im getting. when i hit 2 to boot: athena# kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 3 0xc0400000 6ab778 kernel 2 1 0xc0aac000 59960 acpi.ko athena# uname -a FreeBSD athena.int.dfwlp.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 16 20:48:52 CDT 2006 root@athena.int.dfwlp.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ATHENA i386 and when i dont: athena# kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 1 0xc0400000 6ab778 kernel when i want to boot the acpi support, i hit 2. is that the proper way, or is there some other way that resets this mode as default? thanks, jonathan
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