From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 16 23:58:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DB6E16A4CE; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:58:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.cryptography.com (li-22.members.linode.com [64.5.53.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0843743D48; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:58:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from [10.0.0.34] (adsl-67-127-84-57.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [67.127.84.57]) by www.cryptography.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i7GNw98U024893; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:58:10 -0700 Message-ID: <41214A0E.7040706@root.org> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:58:06 -0700 From: Nate Lawson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Riccardo Torrini References: <20040815223335.GA82743@trudy.torrini.home> <41203316.90801@root.org> <20040816233833.GA651@trudy.torrini.home> In-Reply-To: <20040816233833.GA651@trudy.torrini.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: acpi@FreeBSD.ORG cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disabled known-bad BIOS revisions X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:58:11 -0000 Riccardo Torrini wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 09:07:50PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: >>Try booting with "unset acpi_load" so that acpi is not even loaded. > > Ahemmm, I'm sorry, but I read the next message and updated my BIOS > before any other test :-( Anyway with kernel/world after end of > june it boot only if: > - add hint.acpi.0.disabled="0" > or > - use a kernel _without_ option SMP/option apic > >>Does your system work then? If so, the problem that needs to be >>fixed is booting with ACPI disabled and is a bug. I find it hard >>to believe that your system was designed to not work without ACPI >>since it is from 1999. > > After a BIOS upgrade it works so I think it doesn't matter. If you > really need a report from my old bios I'd think to revert to old one > (but only if you _really_ _really_ need it :-) > > No need to remove. It is a specific version that broke ACPI boot. > After an update from 1014.beta001a to 1014.beta003 works again. > > Thanks for your time. That's why the first advice in the ACPI debuging handbook entry is "upgrade your BIOS." :) It would be good to fix why we couldn't boot with acpi disabled on the old BIOS. I'm guessing it was an error in your system's MADT. -- Nate