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Date:      Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:31:34 +0300
From:      "Abdullah Al-Marrie" <almarrie@gmail.com>
To:        argentoff@rtelekom.ru
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BOOT HANGUP: 6.1-RELEASE, Acer Aspire 5102WLMi and BIOS ver. 2.60
Message-ID:  <499c70c0612220531j14c45590h36cff1a29e96ccfa@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200612221333.14098.argentoff@rtelekom.ru>
References:  <200612221333.14098.argentoff@rtelekom.ru>

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On 12/22/06, Paul Argentoff <argentoff@rtelekom.ru> wrote:
> Hello world!
>
> BEWARE BIOS ver. > 2.00
>
> Acer has recently updated BIOS for Acer Aspire 5102WLMi to 2.60 (see their
> site for more detailed info). I've found that after upgrading BIOS from 2.00
> to 2.60 FreeBSD kernel hangs on boot even before Copyright message. Unloading
> ACPI module has no effect.
>
> In my case I've downloaded and installed good ol' 2.00 version, so I can boot
> again. Has anyone found/solved this issue?

FreeBSD  6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Dec 22 15:02:36
AST 2006     arabian@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARABIAN  i386

Using 2.60 bios.

Has no issues at all.

The only crash would be booting with no acpi.

Thank you,

-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Arab Portal
http://www.WeArab.Net/



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