From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 20:59:58 2005 Return-Path: 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 6DB4516A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:59:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3BFD43D58 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:59:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j1BKxoRY069555; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:59:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:59:50 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Atle Veka Message-ID: <20050211205950.GA68406@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050211122205.X12600@fincher.users.accretive-networks.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050211122205.X12600@fincher.users.accretive-networks.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.7i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE: Where is the blacklist referenced on the install disks? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:59:58 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 11), Atle Veka said: > ASUS p2b-d motherboards are blacklisted on 5.3-RELEASE and refuse to > install. Where is this blacklist located, I need to manually remove > that block? > > The ASUS p2b-d motherboards are quite common, we have probably 100 or > so left of them and have at one point had over 400. Seems really > strange to me to exclude a popular motherboard on acpi issues... The blacklist is on BIOS versions that have broken ACPI support. All it does it disable the ACPI module. Your system should still boot fine without it. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com