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Date:      Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:39:44 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Andrei Kolu <antik@bsd.ee>
Subject:   Re: 6.2 loader hangs on Supermicro P8SCT
Message-ID:  <200704141939.54430.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200704141225.57613.antik@bsd.ee>
References:  <200704131237.05624.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200704141706.16478.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200704141225.57613.antik@bsd.ee>

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On Saturday 14 April 2007 18:55, Andrei Kolu wrote:
> Press any key to gain boot prompt while system is loading- look at loader
> messages.
> From appeared boot prompt type: boot -s

I was under the impression that if you set the autoboot delay to 0 (or -1)=
=20
then you won't be able to get to the loader prompt at all.

I must admit I haven't tested it though.
> > phase of the moon during construction or the diodes?! :)
>
> I got almost identical board P8SCi and have no problems running FreeBSD
> 6.1, 6.2, 7-CURRENT. Maybe you should look at supermicro site and upgrade
> bios. I think this is ACPI problem. You can disable ACPI temporarily at t=
he
> boot loader prompt by issueing "unset acpi_load" if you are having proble=
ms
> booting an ACPI enabled machine.

The loader doesn't use ACPI so while it may be related to ACPI the command =
you=20
suggest won't have an effect.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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