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Subject: Re: acpi patch for dell laptop?
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Eirik Oeverby wrote:

[...]


> And with ACPI disabled, the machine refuses totally to
> boot, it hangs at 'Mounting root from ...'. If I undock the machine, I
> can boot with and without ACPI, with the latter option being the only
> usable (stable) mode.

Just out of curiosity, have you tried setting

hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1

in your /boot/device.hints file? I've found that this option fixes many
unbootable laptops - especially thinkpads.

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