From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 1 04:54:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2E4716A4CE for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 04:54:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from knight.ixsystems.net (afg.ixsystems.net [206.40.55.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE3643D1D for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 04:54:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matto@knight.ixsystems.net) Received: from knight.ixsystems.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knight.ixsystems.net (8.12.10/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i914bnnQ083956; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:37:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matto@knight.ixsystems.net) Received: (from matto@localhost) by knight.ixsystems.net (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id i914bn7T083955; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:37:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matto) Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:37:49 -0700 From: Matt Olander To: "Jason C. Wells" Message-ID: <20040930213749.A83928@knight.ixsystems.net> References: <61D1B42DE744CC8F770302FB@[192.168.1.16]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <61D1B42DE744CC8F770302FB@[192.168.1.16]>; from jcw@highperformance.net on Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:40:35PM -0700 cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI Flakiness / Loader X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:54:38 -0000 On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:40:35PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > This system won't boot with ACPI. The loader doesn't seem to maintain my > menu selection (Selection #2, ACPI disabled) from boot to boot so I must > boot the system while sitting at the console. I am a bit dismayed. I > never had to pay one iota of attention to the loader until now. I prefer > to not have to fiddle bits on very fundamental code that keeps my system > from booting. hi Jason, excerpt from http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/article.html: If you want to disable ACPI simply add hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" to /boot/device.hints. You can disable ACPI temporarily at the boot loader prompt by issueing unset acpi_load if you are having problems booting an ACPI enabled machine. FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE and later come with a boot-time menu that controls how FreeBSD is booted. One of the proposed options is to turn off ACPI. So to disable ACPI just select 2. Boot FreeBSD with ACPI disabled in the menu. cheers, -matt