From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 17 06:42:43 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 1327816A474 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 06:42:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23BFA43D46 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 06:42:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1FrUW1-000Gme-JD; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:42:41 -0600 In-Reply-To: <55254.24.1.139.244.1150514984.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> 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> <55254.24.1.139.244.1150514984.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <8059E230-1203-47F4-B173-00650DC6078E@shire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:42:40 -0600 To: Jonathan Horne X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd on a newer pc 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: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 06:42:43 -0000 On Jun 16, 2006, at 9:29 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: >> >> 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 >> > > i dont think thats the behavior im getting. when i hit 2 to boot: It may depend on how known your MB is to support acpi. On my machines to boot default with acpi and if I tell it not to boot with acpi at boot, when I reboot that is now the default. I am not an expert on this. Maybe your MB is a "known" bad acpi one? --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net