Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:39:24 +0100 From: Patrick Hurrelmann <outi@bytephobia.de> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No acpi with 6.1-BETA4 floppies? Message-ID: <20060324183924.1c92fbb5.outi@bytephobia.de> In-Reply-To: <200603241227.08159.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <20060324174601.0d299e2c.outi@bytephobia.de> <200603241227.08159.jhb@freebsd.org>
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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
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