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Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:39:24 +0100
From: Patrick Hurrelmann <outi@bytephobia.de>
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Subject: Re: No acpi with 6.1-BETA4 floppies?
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:27:06 -0500
John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Friday 24 March 2006 11:46, Patrick Hurrelmann wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > I tried to do a remote install of a amd64-based server with some 6.1-BETA4 floppies.
> > 
> > As it turns, 6.1-BETA4 floppies do NOT contain a acpi.ko and therefore the amd64 may refuse to boot (heard sth. about boot-problems of amd64 boxes without acpi). The install would be remote and I need to overwrite the existing linux. So i wanted at least to be sure it will boot amd64.
> > 
> > I checked with 6.1-BETA4 floppy-images and indeed they do contain acpi.ko.
> > Will acpi.ko come back to the install floppies or has it been dropped intenionally?
> > 
> > Thx,
> 
> amd64 has ACPI compiled into the kernel by default rather than as a
> separate module as on i386 because all amd64 machines support ACPI,
> and it's pretty much mandatory.

Ok, maybe i was a bit unclear in that. I took the i386 floppies as I could not find any amd64 specific floppies on ftp. The i386 floppies for 6.1-BETA4 don't contain acpi while the 6.1-BETA3 floppies do.
Are amd64 floppies beeing build at all? Or do only i386 floppies exist?

Patrick