Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 21:40:39 -0400 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Pascal Hofstee <caelian@gmail.com> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Load ACPI when turned off in loader.con (also: no ACPI panics in ata probe in 7-current) Message-ID: <20050903214039.A16603@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <1125796318.32208.3.camel@synergy.charterpipeline.net.lan>; from caelian@gmail.com on Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 06:11:57PM -0700 References: <20050903210241.A16146@cons.org> <1125796318.32208.3.camel@synergy.charterpipeline.net.lan>
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Pascal Hofstee wrote on Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 06:11:57PM -0700: > On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 21:02 -0400, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > I just turned ACPI off in loader.conf. > > > > Unfortunately it turns out that 7-current on my dual Opteron (Armima > > HDAMB) panics in ata probe when ACPI is off (bug report to follow). > > > > That means I cannot even get into single user mode. I need to load > > ACPI from the loader prompt before booting the kernel. > > > > I tried "load acpi" which does not report an error, but neither a > > loaded module. Booting the kernel afterwards leads to the same panic. > > > > Next I tried to unload the kernel first, but a "load acpi" just loads > > the kernel module, not the acpi module. I assume this is due to me > > having it turned off in loader.conf. > > > > What is the right procedure to do this? Can I tell the bootloader to > > ignore loader.conf? > > Have you tried setting hint.acpi.0.disabled=0 at the boot loader > prompt ? I assume you mean `set hint.acpi.0.disabled=0`. Yes, I tried, and `show` shows it to be zero. It doesn't work either. Setting this, unloading everything and then loading acpi shows the same behavior as before. `load acpi` loads the kernel, no acpi, and a subsequent boot panics. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/
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